ABSTRACT
Form is not accepted by Jacques Derrida as ontologically neutral, or as neutral with regard to the contents of consciousness. Edmund Husserl’s emphasis on pure, a priori and transcendental forms of consciousness contains an implicit subordination of sense to sight. The most abstract, and general, form the basic strata in Husserl’s phenomenology. The ground stratum in Husserl is one of logos, the word of truth appearing as truth itself in Husserl’s assumptions. That is the truth of forms. Meanings are formed from something other than meaning, in the pure logos which provides unity. Language is always interwoven with the other threads of experience. The concept of form could serve as a thread to be followed in phenomenology’s elaboration of a purifying critique. Even if the word “form” translates several Greek words in a highly equivocal fashion, nevertheless one may rest assured that these words all refer to fundamental concepts of metaphysics.
