Volume 65, Issue 1, Winter 2021
Kadir Filiz, Claude Romano, Christina M. Gschwandtner
Pages 183-200
Phenomenology with Big-Hearted Reason
A Conversation with Claude Romano
In this interview, Claude Romano discusses his phenomenological project of the event in relation to hermeneutics, reason, realism, and some other fundamental problems of phenomenology. He explains common themes in his phenomenological project and elucidates why he considers it important to leave behind the transcendental perspective in phenomenology. He distinguishes his descriptive realism from other realist movements in contemporary French philosophy. The interview also questions the Eurocentric orientation of many phenomenological authors and considers the possibility of going beyond such assumptions in phenomenology.