ABSTRACT
In the wake of the work of someone like Emmanuel Levinas, both Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology are open to challenge. Jean-Luc Marion takes a stand that is broadly sympathetic to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, maintaining that it is fundamentally correct to insist that the reduction is indispensable to phenomenological method. The elucidation of the lifeworld remains one of phenomenology's foundational tasks, because such a task represents a break with modernity's naturalistic and positivistic prejudices. The controversy between grammar and phenomenology demands more attention. A phenomenological critique of traditional logic is of a piece with overcoming the Seinsvergessenheit. The return to the world of experience rather than of concepts and words is part and parcel of phenomenology's aim to redirect our attention to what is given in experience, not on what theory says is supposedly given. To the contrary, phenomenology has shown, with remarkable clarity, that the humanity of man is determined by his capacity to love God.
