Abstract

Undoubtedly, a great accomplishment of Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy lies in the fact that he was the first thinker who, by meditating on intersubjectivity, formulated the philosophical possibility through the thinking of culture in terms of intercultural encounters, and that, in this sense, he may have been one step further even from Heidegger, even though he was justifiably reproached by his student that he didn’t venture to overstep the ground of philosophical subjectivist tradition. However, Heidegger was well aware that Husserl’s concept of subjectivity is considerably different from that of the modern age. The argument speaking in favour of this is the possibility of discussing interculturality, which for modern philosophy proves unattainable in so far as it subjects the sphere of culture to the unifying form of subjectivity, without being able to consider it in terms of the constitution of the being-in-the-world– this, for example, being true for all Neo-Kantian theory of culture. By unfolding the universal horizon of the world, Husserl was, within certain limits, capable of giving thought to the relationship between the home world and foreign world as well as the possibility of mutual encounters of various cultural worlds. It is on this basis that we are trying to develop the hermeneutics of interculturality which concentrates primarily on the intermediate space of intercultural encounters and understanding