2010-04-16
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Heidegger and Husserl
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Bijaya MahapatraJawaharlal Nehru University
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No phrase so vividly captures the Husserl-Heidegger debate than "the battle of giants".Unfortunately the battle has its murkier side that sometimes threatens to reduce its protagonists to a state
of caricature.What it takes to a highly talented,original thinker disciple to shrink from an evocative state of scholarly indebtedness to a grudging sense of complain for his guru.Passions
erupt,sentiment overflows and what not.Clearly the Husserl-Heidegger controversy is the century's most pathetic instance of failure of human communication.
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