ABSTRACT
This essay reviews the criticisms Tom Sparrow and Quentin Meillassoux level against transcendental philosophy in general and phenomenology in particular. Of particular concern is the allegation of “correlationism,” a philosophical approach that insists on “the irreducibility of subject and object, thinking and being” and on never considering either term apart from the other. It is argued that correlationism, as a criticism of phenomenology, falls flat for want of understanding the transcendental tradition. It does not accurately describe the phenomenological project, or any philosopher since before Kant.
