On the reception of phenomenology in the hispanic world. Reply to Alfonso Villa

Abstract

Alfonso Villa’s critique to the work Paseo filosófico en Madrid is debatable. It has no sense to argue that Husserl had no sensibility for Realist Philosophy because he founded Phenomenology grounded in the spirit of Brentano’s Descriptive Psychology reforming it as Pure Phenomenology and taking the clarification of the natural attitude of human existence as a guide of analysis. Phenomenological cartesianism has never been the affirmation of a separate substance or of a dominant self, but the recognition of the immanent givenness of life in the passing appearing of time. Abrupt contraposition of Metaphysics with Theory of Knowledge ignores that phenomenological analysis has eliminated, in phenomenon itself, the notion of representation. This elimination has made possible a non-subjectivist understanding of evidence and has discovered the radical concretion in which being and appearing belong one another. Received: 27/05/18 • Accepted: 1/06/18