Abstract

Phenomenology has always dwelled on the borders. Its methods border on those of psychology, logic, and anthropology; its contents, on those of virtually every other discipline. From the beginning phenomenology has been concerned with beginnings and endings—temporal borders—and with finite and infinite forms. Philosophically, phenomenology borders on existentialism, hermeneutics, philosophy of religion, feminism, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and other fields of inquiry. Such borders are obviously not well defined, which is not to say that they do not exist. Phenomenology dwells on its borders by letting itself be challenged about how it represents them. To dwell on...