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This paper gives a general outline and characteristic of the idea of the ‘phenomenology of transcendental mediality’ by Yoshihiro Nitta (1929–) whose contribution to phenomenological philosophy consists in the radical reflection and analysis of the very issue of phenomenology in itself: the analysis of appearance – Erscheinen – in its facticity and mediality. For this task, we shall especially focus on Nitta’s philosophical relationship – “proximity and distance” – with two phenomenologists, i.e., Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink. First, we shall affirm that Nitta accepts Fink’s conception of appearance as “absolute medium” which, according to Fink, makes possible every entity about which we can meaningfully speak. Second, we will discuss the phenomenological conception of facticity in the late Husserl, a central theme for Nitta, carefully employed in order to refine Fink ’ s idea and to build up his “phenomenology of transcendental mediality”.

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