Eugene FinkThinkers

Auflockerung is the loosening up, or turning over of soil, so that it might become more porous, more receptive, for example, to rain.

Jargon is a technical language which the phenomenologist is left to develop. It is a 'nonworldly language', still opaque to the natural attitude.

Man is the spirit which, imbedded in the infinite manifold of thing, impotent in the face of the governing destiny, understands and addresses itself as 'man'.

Modernity is a phenomenon whereby, in the ruin and disintegration of the old culture, the mass of educated men gain access the ground-situation of the philosopher (i.e. A feeling of insecurity vis-a-vis every certitude, belief, and familiarity).

Phenomenology is a 'method,' but it is the method of the most radicalized self-meditation, of the self-assertion and self-realization of the spirit in the opening-up of the depths of its own transcendental life.