Abstract

This first edition of a new electronic journal devoted to phenomenology raises two questions: why phenomenology and why the emphasis upon the Indo-Pacific region? The answer to the first question involves a further question, which is as relevant today as it was in 1934 when Edmund Husserl commenced writing his The Crises of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. The question is: what constitutes the main categories of being human?