Abstract

The aim of this study is to unveil the Kantian echoes of Fink’s idea of a constructive phenomenology by deepening the common points of this idea with Kant’s transcendental dialectic, among which the fact that both unveil structures of totality and are oriented towards a form of ungivenness. At the same time, the article shows some important differences and highlights a polysemy of the notions of given and ungiven characteristic of Kant’s thought which Fink seems to have overlooked or at least to have passed under silence. This polysemy has nevertheless the potential to interrogate the meaning of these notions in Fink’s thought and in phenomenology more generally.