Plastic Bodies Against Phenomenology

Here’s Tom on HIS NEXT BOOK PROJECT. I found his argument persuasive.

It’s good to hear someone like Tom attack the anti-realism of phenomenology. Normally that critique is made by people with a, let us say, sadistic-oral attitude toward phenomenology (that’s a joking reference to the previous cat post, people). And I generally find anti-phenomenology people to be far too quick, and not always aware of what’s being attacked.

For all its dessicated school variants and its generally evasive approach to the reality of the world, phenomenology remains probably the most important school of philosophy in the past century, and there is much to be retrieved from it. People who are in too much of a hurry to pulverize it always make me suspicious.

To give a specific example, I’m always baffled whenever someone is able to learn nothing at all from Husserl.