12 In the desert with Lawrence of Arabia

This chapter proposes a framework in which to evaluate the concepts of intersubjectivity and interobjectivity. The framework I propose is a triadic model that presents the relationship between subject, object, and time in a triangular, symbiotic model. The model borrows from the ideas of Martin Heidegger, specifically those regarding phenomenology, a concept he appropriated from his teacher Edmund Husserl. In the final part of this chapter I will apply the triadic model to illuminate the contribution of a historical horizon (evident in the relationship of time in the triadic model) to the unique way of war of T.E. Lawrence, aka “Lawrence of Arabia.”