ABSTRACT
The history of the relationship between Phenomenology and medieval philosophy is, for the most part, the history of the relationship between Phenomenology and Neo-Scholasticism. In the “pre-history” of phenomenology in the work of Franz Brentano. But it is also to be found in the recent so-called “tournant theologique” of French Phenomenology; and also in the work of those principal figures of Phenomenology in whose thinking medieval philosophy enjoys a degree of presence: from Max Scheler, through Martin Heidegger, to Edith Stein. Various developments occur that are decisive for any consideration of the relations between Neo-Scholasticism and Phenomenology. In the 1920s and 1930s, the thought of Martin Heidegger acquired a role of the first rank. Heidegger’s recreation of Phenomenology in terms of his own project of ontology appeared, from the perspective of Neo-Scholasticism, to be a project of decidedly ambiguous value and benefit. Neo-Scholasticism only very slowly discovers an interest in Phenomenology.
