The phenomenological tradition has always entertained a complex and problematic relation with the notions of humanity, philosophical anthropology, and the human sciences. Husserl’s science of transcendental subjectivity rejects all forms of anthropologism and considers philosophy revolving around the notion of humanity as the result of the inability to overcome the natural attitude. Interpreting phenomenology as a contribution to the understanding humanity, thus, appears to fail to acknowledge that its real theme is the sense of being of the totality of the world, including but not reducible to humanity. Yet, by virtue of the phenomenological elucidation of this sense, humanity appears as the self-objectivation of transcendental subjectivity and as the necessary focal point of the life-world, i.e., of the horizon of all theoretical, practical and axiological accomplishments. In this way, phenomenology acquired from the beginning an intimate relation with the human sciences. Concepts such as humanity and humanism entertain a complex relation with Heidegger’s reflection too.
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Deadline for submission: March 16, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2019
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