From the foregoing it is clear that Professor Magliola has found in Martin Heidegger's hermeneutical phenomenology a way to ground his own critical pluralism. As a teacher of comparative literature, perhaps, he can be nothing but a pluralist. He meets and enters into dialogue with students ...
I define the ideal type of hermeneutic criticism in terms of (Husserlian) phenomenology and existentialism (including the so-called philosophy of life) and consider essential to this criticism the prevalence of natural language in its discourse and of conscious life in its frame of reference. Thus...