"Linguistic phenomenology"

John L. austin and Alexander Pfänder

pp. 83-90

in: Herbert Spiegelberg, The context of the phenomenological movement, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1982

Abstract

It has become almost a cliché that Anglo-American and Continental European (including Ibero-American) philosophy are separated by a gulf, widest at the English Channel. Such clichés and the underlying metaphors of gulfs, curtains, and blocks can become dangerous once we become resigned to them.² But blocks can be crushed, curtains can be raised, and gulfs can be bridged. My preference is for trying to build bridges.