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Zugl.: Wien, WirtschaftsUniversiẗat, Diss.

With the help of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason this paper aims to investigate the very possibility of philosophical reflection. Starting from a reading of two Eugen Fink texts, a phenomenologically discovered question is posed and a critical response attempted. It will be shown how, by orienting itself upon the subjective feeling of reason’s demand for the unconditioned, critical thought is then able to restrict itself to a valid use of reason, thus securing its own possibility. The transcendental methodology employed by Kant and the concept of pure apperception will also be discussed as key components in the facilitation of philosophical reflection. The Kantian response offered here is largely centred around the concept of transcendental illusion as discussed in the ‘Transcendental Dialectic’ and by taking related concepts such as transcendental reflection into consideration it is subsequently shown that, despite being raised here phenomenologically, the question of philosophical reflection is very much of interest to critical thought.

Les recherches entreprises dans cette thèse portent sur la phénoménologie de la phénoménologie de Eugen Fink, dont la "Sixième méditation cartésienne" (1932) constitue l’exposition principale. Elles cherchent à en cerner le problème directeur et à l'analyser dans ses différentes formes. Elles entreprennent à cette fin une série d'allers et retours entre la phénoménologie de la phénoménologie finkienne et la phénoménologie husserlienne. C'est dans cette dernière en effet qu'émerge le problème méthodologique abordé par Fink dans la Sixième méditation : le problème de la phénoménalisation de la temporalisation originaire. Il peut être formulé en première instance de la manière suivante : d'une part, la temporalisation originaire ne se phénoménalise qu'en tant que niveau constitutif distinct du flux immanent ; d'autre part la temporalisation originaire ne se phénoménalise que d'après le niveau constitutif du flux immanent. Il s'agit dès lors de savoir comment la temporalisation originaire peut se phénoménaliser à la fois comme niveau constitutif du flux immanent et d'après le niveau constitutif du flux immanent. Ce problème est abordé dans la "Sixième méditation" comme question de savoir comment penser, d'une part la réduction transcendantale et, d'autre part, le retour du spectateur phénoménologique dans l'attitude naturelle. Notre thèse cherche à montrer l'importance du concept de Schwingung pour penser ce double mouvement de phénoménalisation : celle-ci ne consiste pas pour le spectateur phénoménologique à s'installer dans le niveau constitutif de la temporalisation originaire, mais à osciller [schwingen] entre ce dernier et le niveau constitutif du temps immanent. / This thesis concerns E. Fink's phenomenology of phenomenology, witch the “Sixth Cartesian meditation” (1932) is the main document. The research is focussed to address it in its basic issue and to analyse it in its different forms. To reach this result a series of investigations both in Finkian phenomenology of phenomenology and in Husserl's phenomenology were performed. In the last one we find the methodological problem that Fink explored in the “Sixth meditation”: the phenomenalizing of original temporality. This item was elaborated by Fink as the problem of unity between the transcendental reduction and the return of the phenomenological onlooker into the natural attitude. In this work we highlight the importance of concept of Schwingung to think these double movements of phenomenalizing: this does not consist for the phenomenological onlooker to put himself in the constitutive level of original temporality, bur to oscillate [schwingen] between it and the constitutive level of immanent time.

Trimethyltin (TMT) produces prominent neuron death in the hippocampus. The time-course of TMT-induced damage was studied using reduced-silver procedures for impregnation of degenerating axons and their terminals, and a modified Timm's stain procedure for visualization of hippocampal transitional metals. Standard cell body stains were also used. Fifty-four, adult, Long-Evans rats were gavaged with 6.0 mg TMT/kg b.wt. and 10 rats were gavaged with distilled water as controls. Five TMT-gavaged rats and one saline-gavaged rat were sacrificed on either postgavage day 1, 3, 6, 9, 14, 19, 30, 45, 70 or 99. Histological examination revealed a band of degenerating terminals in the stratum lucidum, below the hippocampal subfields CA3a,b pyramidal cells, by postgavage day 3. This preceded dentate gyrus granule cell loss supplying the mossy fiber input to the stratum lucidum by several days. Hippocampal pyramidal cell necrosis continued through the examination period while dentate granule cell loss subsided between postgavage days 9 and 14. Fiber and terminal degeneration was more extensive in the dorsal hippocampus than in the ventral hippocampus, although Timm's-stained sections revealed "bleaching" of stainable metal in the mossy fiber pathway of the ventral hippocampus. These data suggest that loss of ventral dentate granule cells might reduce TMT-induced necrosis of pyramidal cells in the ventral (temporal) part of the Ammon's horn, possibly by preventing the spread of seizure activity in this region of the hippocampus. Additionally, although previous studies have reported the toxic effects of TMT to last approximately 60 days, the results of the present study indicate that TMT-induced degeneration continues for more than 3 months. Reduced-silver stains, such as the Fink-Heimer procedure, appear to be more sensitive indicators of enduring neuropathology than more traditional cell stains.

Crises are unpredictable events which impact on organisational issues such as viability, credibility and reputation. In recent years, few topics have generated more interest within the discipline of public relations. Today, crises are a prominent feature of the business environment, and every organisation has the potential to experience one. The manner in which mass media frame crises can alter an organisation's reputation, affect organisational profitability, and ultimately the survival of the organisation. This thesis explores the application of Fink's (1986) Crisis Life Cycle model to mass media content. Further, it recommends the implementation crisis public relations strategies that address each stage of the model. The study demonstrated the relevance and importance of the extension of Fink's (1986) Crisis Life Cycle theoretical model to understanding mass media content during a crisis. The extended model provides a model to better understand a crisis and its life cycle from a public relations perspective. Further this expanded model provides the framework for public relations professionals to identify and comprehend the dynamic and multidimensional set of relationships that occur during the Crisis Life Cycle in a rapidly changing and challenging operational environment.

Diss. Wirtsch.-wiss. Zürich, 2004. / Literaturverz.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Filosofía. / El presente trabajo está destinado a demostrar la hipótesis, de que los planteamientos contenidos en la „Crítica del Juicio‟ acerca de lo bello y lo sublime permiten demostrar que dentro del sistema kantiano opera una „filosofía del juego‟.

The present investigation discusses the phenomenological concept of the phenomenon through an interpretation of the meaning of the negativity of the phenomenon in the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka and Eugen Fink. This negativity is thematised in terms of a loss and a privation that leads to a description of the appearing of the phenomenon as a sublime event, which exposes existence to an absence of meaning. A formulation of the absence in question as a dynamic movement of existence opens a new perspective on what it means to do phenomenology: phenomenological thinking does not begin with the immediate givenness of appearance, but through the trembling of meaning in the experience of a loss of the phenomenon. / Denna avhandling belyser fenomenologins fenomenbegrepp genom en tolkning av dess i förhållande till framträdelsen negativa innebörd i Martin Heideggers, Jan Patočkas och Eugen Finks filosofiska författarskap. Fenomenets negativitet tematiseras i termer av ett berövande och en förlust av fenomenet. Förståelsen av detta fördjupas stegvis, och leder fram till en beskrivning av fenomenets framträdande som en sublim tilldragelse. Denna tilldragelse exponerar existensen inför en frånvaro av mening. En formulering av frånvaron ifråga som en dynamisk rörelse av existensen öppnar för ett nytt perspektiv på vad det innebär att bedriva fenomenologi: fenomenologiskt tänkande börjar inte med framträdelsens omedelbara givenhet, utan genom erfarenheten av en förlust av fenomenet som skakar om den givna meningen.

This thesis "The Cosmological Education by E. Fink" represents modified and extended text of the publication (2018), which was the result of the grant project GA UK. Through commented translations of the excerpts of Fink's books, parts of his diaries, unpublished notes from his written inheritance, stored in the University archive in Freiburg, this thesis aims to bring new perspective and to provoke discussion about his cosmological philosophy as a possible way of the future social self-development in the nihilistic era. The cosmological philosophy of education shows Fink, the best former student and assistant of the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, in a quite surprising light - as a radical thinker of Nietzsche's philosophical and educational legacy. Fink knowingly departs from husserlian phenomenology, what is closer described here in the additional chapter dedicated to the problem of technique, science and work. The method of the research intuitively seeks and critically reflects Fink's own way of thinking about the problem of education, which is inseparable from his constant dialogue with the history of philosophy, necessity of the revaluation of the metaphysical bounds and consecutive understanding of a man as ens cosmologicum, what reflects also the structure of the thesis. KEYWORDS...