ABSTRACT
Phenomenology considers the objective world as a phenomenon, that is, as an appearance or show. It is not interested in the independent existence of these phenomena nor their real causes; those considerations are not denied, but put out of consideration, or "bracketed out." In a word, surrealism offers phenomenology a phenomenon which lies beyond its hitherto conceived limits. Phenomenology surely is a form of absolute reason, though distinguishable from a variety of rationalisms; it was an effort dedicated to the ultimate clarification of both the world and that ego for whom there was a world. This project in one form or another has indeed dominated any serious philosophy since its beginning, much as Husserl said in the Crisis. For phenomenology as well as much of aesthetic criticism, the reduction of experience to its objective phenomenality is put in the service of description.
