he relationship between the father of phenomenology and the father of the philosophy of stories has been described as a departure of Wilhelm Schapp from Edmund Husserl, following the turn to transcendental idealism marked by the publication of Ideen (1913). This supposed rupture is taken to ground Schapp’s narratological reinterpretation of phenomenology. Nevertheless, Schapp’s work – particularly In Geschichten verstrickt (1953) – remains deeply indebted to Husserl’s phenomenology, and the rela…
Read morehe relationship between the father of phenomenology and the father of the philosophy of stories has been described as a departure of Wilhelm Schapp from Edmund Husserl, following the turn to transcendental idealism marked by the publication of Ideen (1913). This supposed rupture is taken to ground Schapp’s narratological reinterpretation of phenomenology. Nevertheless, Schapp’s work – particularly In Geschichten verstrickt (1953) – remains deeply indebted to Husserl’s phenomenology, and the relation between their respective projects is more complex than a simple rupture would suggest. While their points of departure – Husserl’s reine Ich and Schapp’s Ich-verstrickt – are undeniably different, it would be unfair to dismiss phenomenology for its transcendental idealism, apparently incompatible with an approach centered on an empirical subject entangled in a network of stories. This paper aims to overcome this dichotomy by showing that Husserl’s phenomenology and Schapp’s philosophy of stories meet at what constitutes the subject of an intersubjective world.
