The early Reception of the Phenomenology in Spain und Latin America

• Applicant: Dr. Guillermo Ferrer Ortega, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: History of Philosophy
• Term: from 2017 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 388541514

My project aims, on the one hand, at a detailed exposition of the reception of German Phenomenology (Edmund Husserl and his successors) in Spain and Latin America. On the other hand, I want to stress the significance of this reception on an existing intercultural link between Germany philosophy and Ibero-American thought. The time frames are from the 1920s to the 1970s, in which not only the first monographs about Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann, among others, were written in Spanish but there were also attempts to use the phenomenological method as an instrument suitable for the understanding and renewal of Spanish and Latin American philosophy and culture. The main goal of this project is to make the thinking of the Ibero-American philosophers known by means of a commented anthology and a historical and systematic presentation of the movement of phenomenology in Latin America to a German-speaking audience. Yet, the project would be innovative in the sense that it will not undertake any purely philological and historical recapitulation on German phenomenology in Ibero-America. Instead, the research is intended to stress the involvement of the Phenomenological Movement in the formation of a specific Ibero-American philosophy and its contribution to the definition of a cultural identity.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain
• Co-Investigators: Professor Dr. Matei Chihaia; Professor Dr. Gerald Hartung; Professor Dr. Alexander Schnell
• Cooperation Partners: Professor Dr. Jesús Díaz Álvarez; Professor Dr. Antonio González; Professor Dr. Guillermo Hurtado Pérez; Dr. Hernán Gabriel Inverso, Ph.D.; Professor Gustavo Leyva Martínez; Professor Dr. Agustín Serrano de Haro; Professorin Dr. Yasmin Temelli; Professor Dr. Julio César Vargas Bejarano; Professor Dr. Antonio Zirión Quijano