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Despite its incongruities of form, The Desert is an exciting, even a profound modern document. Its philosophical underwriters are Husserl, Heidegger and Ludwig Binswanger, the Swiss psychiatrist who provided a much-needed addendum to Freud. Binswanger gently argued that the undefinable human spirit is as powerful a drive as instinct-if indeed the two theoretical categories can be separated in practice at all. Fusing spirit and instinct, theory and fiction, Wheelis' risky work gives a unique life to Binswanger's philosophical view...
Lonergan's method is his own, but he clearly owes a debt to the phenomenologists, particularly to German Philosopher Edmund Husserl. For the phenomenologist, the material evidence of a perceived object is screened by the dynamic (and very personal) phenomenon of the act of knowing. Husserl developed this into the idea of "horizon" - the vastness or narrowness of the world a man perceives. For Husserl, a man's horizon is limited by his per spective: his environment, his loves and fears, his interests and prejudices...
...work Merleau-Ponty left us is a testament to the fruitfulness of an intelligence shaped by, among others, Hegel, Marx and the phenologist Edmund Husserl, and a sensibility tested at once by modern art and literature, and by the intricacy and terror of politics in the twentieth century. Whether we shall prove capable of claiming- and keeping -out inheritance remains to be seen. What we can begin to see now is the extremity of the position he found himself in, and the scope of the task he set himself...
...Continent, the philosophical revolt took a different form. Germany's Edmund Husserl developed a "descriptive science" that he called phenomenology. His method was to examine and describe a particular experience-at the same time mentally blocking off any speculations about its origin or significance, any memories of similar experiences. By this act of epoche, a deliberate suspension of judgment, Husserl felt that the mind could eventually intuit the essence of the object being studied. Husserl's bafflingly difficult approach influenced such modern existentialist philosophers as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre...
...philosophy an analysis of meaning, it shares with existentialism the theory that our acts determine, or constitute, our ego. "This same element of ego-constitution recurs in all the existentialists," Follesdal said, "although for Kierkegaard, the ego-determining effects of our acts appear to be more abiding than for Husserl; for Sartre, they appear to be less abiding...