With Husserl, Against Heidegger: For a Phenomenological Anthropology

Utilizing Blumenberg's critical analysis of Husserl's phenomenology, this article aims to reconstruct and interpret the most important aspects of Blumenberg's own phenomenological anthropology. Special attention is paid 1) to his theory of life-world, which accounts for the self-evident structures of meaning that shape everyday human experience, and whose historical configurations are addressed by Blumenberg; 2) to his critical confrontation with Heidegger.