ABSTRACT
In order to ground the discussion of the phenomenology of antiphenomenality, Pat Bigelow begins with a lengthy analysis of Husserlian phenomenology, which focuses on the nature of reflection, intentionality, and consciousness. And he demonstrates a deep knowledge of Edmund Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts, as well as the published German works and English translations. Readers may wonder how Bigelow would respond to the supposed claims to direct communication within Soren Kierkegaard’s signed writings and specifically Christian truth claims. While Bigelow refers occasionally to several of Kierkegaard’s signed texts, he quite frequently cites from and discourses on Works of Love. Overall, Bigelow presents readers with a remarkably rich, dense, and difficult non-book, one that re-petitions “in writing, the phenomena, that have lapsed into the obstruction of themselves”. Bigelow raises the possibility of the ontology of writing. The importance for Bigelow of what Kierkegaard designates by the word “repetition” cannot be overstated.
