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Oskar Becker (1889–1964). It is not necessary that the foundation of all being be a unique origin; it could be constituted by an antagonistic duality. These are the terms in which Otto Pöggeler has recently characterized the problematic that lies at the base of Oskar Becker’s reflections on aesthetics (Pöggeler, 1996: 29; cf. Sepp, 1998). This conception, however, which Becker anchors mainly in Schelling’s philosophy of nature, does not simply put phenomenology aside, but rather pushes it to its extreme consequences. Interesting in this approach is not simply the fact that the rhizōmata panton, which in “Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft” (1911)

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Ophälders, M. (2009). Oskar Becker. In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_8

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