In this work Crowell proposes that the distinguishing feature of 20th-century philosophy is not so much its emphasis on language as its concern with meaning. He argues that transcendental phenomenology is indispensible to the philosophical explanation of the space of meaning.

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Reconsidering Transcendental PhenomenologyPart 1. Reconfiguring Transcendental Logic1. Neo-Kantianism: Between Science and Worldview2. Emil Lask: Aletheiology as Ontology3. Husserl, Lask, and the Idea of Transcendental Logic4. Lask, Heidegger, and the Homelessness of Logic5. Making Logic Philosophical AgainPart 2. Phenomenology and the Very Idea of Philosophy6. Heidegger's Phenomenological Decade7. Question, Reflection, and Philosophical Method8. Philosophy as a Vocation: Heidegger and University Reform in the Early Interwar Years9. Husserl, Heidegger, and Transcendental Philosophy: Another Look at the Encyclopaedia Britannica Article 10. Ontology and Transcendental Phenomenology between Husserl and Heidegger11. Heidegger's Phenomenology and the Question of Being12. Metaphysics, Metontology, and the End of Being and Time13. Gnostic Phenomenology: Eugen Fink and the Critique of Transcendental ReasonNotesBibliographyIndex