The undergraduate thesis presents the basic concepts and problems of phenomenology, as practiced by its main exemplaries; Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, with the goal of using the phenomenological approach to study cyber-space. Albeit the Question concerning technology only arises in Heidegger’s later work, it is implied all through Husserl’s critique of science and his demand on an intuitive, self-evident knowledge. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the work of Husserl. We begin with his critique of the sciences, after which we introduce the phenomenological reduction and the main concepts of intentionality, apodictiveness, consciousness as body, temporality and intersubjectivity. In the second part we dedicate ourselves to studying Heidegger’s concepts of understanding, being-in-world, the object as tool, anxiety, temporality, and technology.
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