John Reis’s Reviews > Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy > Status Update

Are the arguments you remember from grad school coming back to you as you read through this volume?

Jason, hi. I have vague memories of the phenomenological method: epoche, bracketing. This book is more about the argument for the need for such a process and what one can expect as a result. H. started life as a mathematician. And like other mathematicians, he is focused on certainty, a la Descartes and Leibniz. I never heard the word "apodeictic" used so much in other classes. So, yes, it brings back some of his background thinking and a little on what reduction is supposed to do. I did not buy it then and certainly don't buy it now. "Intuition" has always struck me as a piece of mysticism. Cheers.