Introduction of Lecturers:


Prof.Ronald Bruzina | Prof. Hans-Reiner Sepp


Prof. Ronald Bruzina (PhD, University of Notre Dame 1966, Doctorat de 3e cycle, Universite de Paris-Nanterre 1970), professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, has been concentrating on the fuller details of phenomenology in Edmund Husserl's final years, 1928-1938, by linking Husserl's late-period manuscripts with Eugen Fink's complete research notes from those years. The implications of this for understanding post-war phenomenology, especially the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patocka, are indicated in Bruzina's more recent papers.

The two largest projects coming from Bruzina's primary research interest, however, are: Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink, Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938 (Yale University Press, 2004); and Phanomenologische Werkstaat, in 4 Vols comprising Part 3 of the Eugen-Fink-Gesamtausgabe under way from Alber Verlag (Freiburg/Munchen). (Volumes 3.1 and 3.2 of Phanomenologische Werkstaat have now been published.) More recently Bruzina has been developing the radical recasting of the nature-culture divide on the basis of openings to its possible overcoming one can find in the writings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty (with essential critique contributions from Fink).