Abstract

This book provides an overall account of the history of philosophy in the 20th century from a clear philosophical perspective. It shows the new departure in philosophical thinking through Frege and Husserl: The validity of philosophical thinking emancipated itself from psychology and historicism through the dictum ‘To the things themselves!’. Phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy has diverged greatly from language-analytical philosophy since Heidegger and Wittgenstein. This fascinating book shows, in contrast to the history of culture and science, the common basic questions of these two forms of philosophy despite all their differences, and attempts to address the great philosophical questions in a nuanced manner and to keep them open in a world of disenchantment (M. Weber).