Volume 26, Number 5 · April 5, 1979
It Makes You Wonder
By J.M. Cameron
Husserl and the Search for Certitude
by Leszek Kolakowski
Yale University Press, 85 pp., $8.50
Ethics, Value, and Reality: Selected Papers of Aurel Kolnai
introduction by David Wiggins, by Bernard Williams
Hackett Publishing Company, 280 pp., $9.75 (paper)
The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: An Anthology of His Work
edited by Charles E. Reagan, edited by David Stewart
Beacon Press, 262 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Phenomenology is perhaps the only school of modern philosophy that appears to offer an alternative to the analytical schools still dominant among English-speaking philosophers. (Large questions are begged here: I have set aside neo-Marxism and Structuralism as not philosophical in the traditional and, by Marxists, reprobated sense, and I have taken as truistic Wittgenstein's remark that psychology has no more to do with philosophy than any other natural science.) But it is hard to say, or adequately to discuss except at great length, what phenomenology may be. The question is variously answered by the authors of the books under review. All of them are admirers of the work of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (who died in 1938), the founder of the phenomenological school; and two of them would not repudiate the title 'phenomenologist.'
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