Phenomenology, present and future a spanish-american perspective

Abstract

The following article offers a singular and personal perspective on the current state of phenomenology. In this framework, I reclaim and underline some central motives from which phenomenology originated and upon which it is founded. According to these motives, I present phenomenology as a description of ownness –of one’s own experience–, in order to attain then a fundamental conclusion: one has to write in one’s own name, and not on the basis of bibliographical references to certain authors or thinkers. From this point on, I analyze the correspondence between the description of ownness and writing in one’s own name, as well as the responsibility which phenomenological thought therefore entails. In this way a new field opens itself, one that, beyond description, implies at the same time an attempt to exceed the given by penetrating into what is to-come, and into perspectives which lead to the thinking of the possible as such. I conclude by briefly addressing the issue of one’s own language –in this case, Spanish–, and its relationship to other internationally institutionalized academic languages, focusing on the relationship between work in phenomenology and its writing in Spanish.