ABSTRACT
The phenomenological investigations of Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl and Martin Heidegger not only require and complement one another, but also point the way to a third direction in which phenomenology must move if it is to preserve the significance of its initial insights and unify its Cartesian and anti-Cartesian tendencies. The task of phenomenology to investigate these different attitudes which man takes toward the world and to exhibit, if possible, their interconnections. But these attitudes are not entirely the product of man. Hence the task of phenomenology is twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to discover the modes of understanding which man brings to experience. On the other, it investigates the resistance of phenomena to the contexts we seek to impose upon them. Finally, it suggested that the continual origination of form which ties experience together is fundamentally temporal.
