Phenomenology (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

“the presence,”

He finds this puzzling because experience seems to be something incidental to things, something that could hardly provide the foundation of knowing how things must be, and yet it is only via experience that we know things.

The unfolding of experience allows us to sort true appearances from mere appearances. Phenomenology does not study mere appearance; it studies the true appearance of things.

for the field of philosophy called phenomenology. No account of the whole can be complete if it doesn’t account for the accounting of the whole, that is, if it doesn’t make sense of our curious wonder about the whole. And no account of wonder can be complete if it doesn’t explain the presence of perception, not as the juxtaposition of two things, b

The blind spot of contemporary science, an inability to locate itself in the picture it generates, serves as a primary focus

Experience does not take place in our brains but in the public world. Perception is the achievement of our whole body as we explore the world; flesh names the way our experiential exploration is inscribed into the bearing of our bodily being, making our experiential exploration available to the experience of others. Speech, which is instituted in b

“philosophy may be paradoxically, but not unprofoundly, called the science of the trivial.”12

“A painter without hands who wished to express in song the picture before his mind would, by means of this substitution of spheres, still reveal more about the essence of things than does the empirical world.”

truth might be met in the flesh.