This chapter discusses phenomenological experience introducing phenomenological techniques like reduction and epoché. While the discussion largely remains faithful to Husserl’s texts and provides a close reading of some passages, it does present phenomenology as an encounter, that can be investigated while emphasising various focal points, even after the epoché. The focus of the discussion is...
The final chapter moves fully into speculative metaphysics. After discussing the ontological and conceptual problems that would ensue if ‘nature’ and ‘life’ were used as realist concepts of being, an alternative is introduced, namely ‘becoming existence’. It is discussed as a concept of being able to come to terms both with the becoming and the relational nature of being, without erasing all...