The Philosophical Question of Community in the Light of Cosmologic Difference Some Notes on Eugen Fink

• The present article discusses some theses by Eugen Fink on the philosophical question of community in the light of the cosmic sense of the world and the cosmologic difference. Fink centers his thoughts on community in the experience of cosmic belonging and proposes a basis for thinking the question of community beyond the dialectics of individual and bond, searching for a pre-individual notion of togetherness. The key for such a notion is the erotic body as the experience of a belonging-together of the day and the night of being. It is from the belonging-together of a diurnal and a nocturnal principle of understanding that the cosmic sense of the world emerges as cosmic difference in the erotic body. 

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

Keyword

community

cosmological difference

dialectics of individual and bond

Renaud Barbaras

world

Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning

Baltic and East European studies

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)