ABSTRACT
This chapter presents criticism through its basic interpretation of and general objections to phenomenology, in order subsequently to question the validity of this criticism by referring to the principal difference between the phenomenological and the critical ideas of a transcendental philosophy. It proceeds to point out, on the basis of the different objections, the divergency of the two philosophical conceptions. Criticism's critique of the phenomenological method does not, however, concern itself with this totality of basic knowledge, but rather presupposes a concept of method which aims at uncovering that capacity for knowledge which is activated by philosophical reflection. The chapter concludes by indicating the general problematic of phenomenology's "transcendental appearance" in which all serious misconceptions are grounded.
