The Fundamental Concepts of Phenomenology

Claude Romano defends the phenomenological thesis that a pre-linguistic order of experience exists, distinct from conceptual thought and linguistic schemes. In an interview about his work Au coeur de la raison: la phénoménologie (At the Heart of Reason), he argues that experience has its own structure prior to language and concepts, challenging views that reduce experience to linguistic or conceptual frameworks.

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Abstract

In this interview, Claude Romano discusses his magnum opus, Au coeur de la raison: la phénoménologie (At the Heart of Reason) and defends the “phenomenological thesis” that there is a pre-lingusitic order of experience distinct from the forms of conceptual thought and the linguistic schemes that underlie them.