The Unfinished Dispute on the Understanding of the Human Person. Edmund Husserl – Józef Tischner

The monograph presents the philosophical positions of Edmund Husserl and Józef Tischner regarding the understanding of the concept of the human person, as well as the so-called dispute as an internal characteristic of phenomenology in a broad sense. The presented conflict of positions attests to the vitality of phenomenology itself and to the shared spiritual ethos of Husserl’s and Tischner’s philosophy. The work has two main objectives. The first is to present the critiques made by both philosophers of certain views, philosophical directions, and systems, which, in their opinion, involve reductionist conceptions of the human individual. The second is to highlight the contentious issues between Husserl’s and Tischner’s philosophical approaches to the human person. The comparative analysis of the concept of the person in the philosophies of Husserl and Tischner has not yet been exhaustively addressed.