Mare nostrum and the Firm Ground of Phenomenology

U »Bečkom predavanju« čitava je povijest svijeta u jednom trenutku naslikana u alegoriji valovitog mora bez obala. U Ideji fenomenologije se filozof-pripovjedač zatekao usred nemirnog mora, ali na kraju uspijeva »baciti kotvu na obalu fenomenologije«. S probojem na »kopno apsolutnih danosti« putem fenomenološke redukcije, alegorijsko prikazivanje trebalo je konačno izgubiti svoje filozofsko opravdanje. Međutim, metafore koje prizivaju alegorije nastavljaju bujati čak i u najstrožim fenomenološkim deskripcijama. No, usprkos svojoj inherentnoj metaforičnosti, tako živoj da se na ključnim točkama Husserlovih analiza često iznova pojavljuje mitski sukob zemlje i mora, fenomenološka interpretacija svijeta ipak u bitnom smislu nije alegorična.In the “Vienna lecture”, the whole of the world’s history is at one moment depicted through the allegory of a wavy sea without borders. In The Idea of Phenomenology, the philosopherstoryteller is caught up in a heavy sea, but at the end, they finally manage to “drop the anchor on the shore of phenomenology”. With the break into the “mainland of absolute givenness” through phenomenological reduction, allegorical representation should lose its philosophical justification. However, metaphors which evoke allegories continue to proliferate even in the most rigorous phenomenological descriptions. Despite its inherent metaphoricity, so vivid that at the crucial points of Husserl’s analyses often reappears a mythical clash of land and sea, the phenomenological interpretation of the world seems nonetheless essentially non-allegorical