Studia Phaenomenologica

Volume 10, 2010

Phenomenology and Psychology

Irina Rotaru
Pages 253-269

Die ethische Priorität des Außerordentlichen
Interview mit Bernhard Waldenfels

This interview took place on the 8th of April 2010 in München, at Professor Waldenfels’ house. The questions for this interview were meant to touch the most important ideas of Bernhard Waldenfels’ philosophy—the idea of universal order as a sign for a limited and dictatorial thinking, the respondent that replaces the traditional subject, the idea that an ethics according to which a subject is responsible for something to someone overestimates the unity of the subject and does injustice to all the three instances of a happening (subject—for something—to someone). Waldenfels clarifies some of the problematic implications of these ideas.