ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE PHENOMENOLOGY, PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY

Our work, of which this article is a partial assessment, intends to explore the historical and current debates, real or virtual, between Philosophical Anthropology (Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen) and Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenologies in the twentieth century in France and Germany and beyond. One of our guiding threads to cross this complex theoretical heritage is the hypothesis of Blumenberg who, in his Description of Man, situates the germ of an "anthropological turn" of phenomenology in 1913, a turn that Gehlen's philosophical and "empirical" anthropology will radicalize and finalize in 1940 in Man. His place and Nature in the World. This turn is associated with a paradigmatic shift (from ontology and metaphysics to anthropology) that allows to consider the anthropological condition of phenomenology, that is to say of the phenomenologist.