Facing the thing itself — A Classic Phenomenological Reader

Author: Ni Liangkang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: The meanings that arise from distant, ambiguous, and non-authentic intuition are far from sufficient for us. We must return to the "thing itself." We must attain clarity in fully developed intuition. — Husserl's phenomenology is not a school; it is the possibility of thought that constantly transforms itself and thereby endures, namely, the ability to respond to the call of what awaits thought. — Heidegger Today, when people first encounter the phenomenological movement, many of the well-known names of the time have been forgotten. The association evoked by the term "phenomenology" is primarily with the philosophical thoughts of Husserl and Heidegger. However, the spiritual horizon they represented has been and remains very broad. The predecessor of phenomenological research, Romberg, begins his 1998 article "The Way of Phenomenology" by saying: "Husserl is not a phenomenologist, and Heidegger is not the last phenomenologist. Phenomenology is the fundamental idea of philosophy, it has a long history, and there will be a long history ahead."