Edmund Husserl & Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938

Bruzina portrays the personal and working relationship between Husserl and Fink and analyzes in meticulous detail the course of Fink's thought as he brought to bear the thought of Heidegger, Dilthey, Kant, Nietzsche, and Hegel on the achievement of a systematic phenomenology of phenomenology. The perpetual beginner, Husserl, took on Fink as a research assistant from 1930-34 originally as someone who could work through the revisions for a fuller version of the Cartesian Meditations and present to the world the Husserl-endorsed articles, "The Phenomenological Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Contemporary Criticism" and "What Does the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl Want to Do?" A second stage of collaboration from 1934-37 concerned the laying out of a programmatic completion of Husserl's work and the readying of his Nachlass in which he claimed repeatedly his real philosophy was contained.