Abstract

László Tengelyi has published in his last book "World and Infinity. On the problem of phenomenological metaphysics" a perspective is presented which is characterized by two main traits. On the one hand, he advocates the thesis that phenomenology enables a new type of metaphysics that does not connect with any ontotheology. He thus approaches a diagnosis of time formulated in the field of the more recent French metaphysical history, for example when Courtine speaks of the end of the "end of metaphysics. On the other hand, Tengelyi explicitly assigns his approach to what he calls a "Wuppertal tradition": the tradition founded by Klaus Held, in which phenomenology as such is understood as a phenomenology of the world. However, Tengelyi deviates from a "hero’s principle": while Held prioritizes a phenomenology of the finiteness of the world inspired by Heidegger, Tengelyi is concerned with the rehabilitation of Husserl’s idea of infinity. In Tengelyi’s work, these two main traits combine to form a phenomenology of the world and its infinite, which sees itself as a renewal of metaphysics with originally phenomenological means. Tengelyi finds the sources of her elaboration primarily in Husserl and Heidegger, in addition in the French phenomenology, with Sartre and Levinas, but also with Richir and Marion, and beyond the phenomenological tradition, he relies on Aristotle and Duns Scotus as well as on Kant, Schelling and Rickert.