The world unclaimed: A challenge to Heidegger´s critique of Husse

This volume argues that we should become suspect of Heidegger´s claim in "Being and Time" that he "has rescued the phenomenon of the world", which the tradition of philosophy has surpassed. While the author, Lilian Alweiss, concurs with Heidegger that the phenomenon of the world needs to be salvaged, she argues that the tools provided in "Being and Time" remain inadequate for such an undertaking. Heidegger´s claim is that ontology is more fundamental than epistemology.The book launches a devastating critique against "Being and Time". It further argues that thinkers in the vein of Husserl and Kant may provide us with a more adequate picture of how we are meant to understand our relation to the world. Drawing on "Ideas II" - a text with which the Heidegger of "Being and Time" was familiar - the author shows how Husserl provides resources to recover the phenomenon of the world that "Being and Time" sets out to salvage. Alweiss´s study demonstrates that it is possible to overcome epistemological skepticism without ever losing sight of the phenomenon of the world. Moreover she challenges us to reconsider the relation between Husserl and Heidegger by providing a forceful defence of Husserl´s critique of cognition.