Was also ist die Zeit? Zum “wahrhaft Absoluten” der Phänomenologie

The contribution has two interconnected goals. On the one hand, it addresses the classic problem of a phenomenology of time. Time is not one „Sache selbst“ among others in phenomenology, but it is, as Husserl writes in Ideas I, the „truly absolute“. On the other hand, the contribution shows how a description of the experience of time as this “truly absolute” leads to the necessity of overcoming purely eidetic phenomenology towards a critical hermeneutic phenomenology that is always also dealing with the interpretation of texts. Thus, the current praxis of many phenomenologists, who develop their ideas in the realm of a discussion with texts from multiple disciplines and traditions (one of them being the phenomenological tradition itself), is thus not a digression from phenomenology, but a critical phenomenology itself.