The Emergence of The Logos of Life In its Constructive Elan

To return to our main argument, as long as we do not directly address the issue of Husserl’s binding intentionality to consciousness as its basis, we will remain on the stalled treadmill of the critique of reason. Ultimately Husserlian phenomenology by its identifying the intentionality of consciousness with cognition does not allow us to escape the trap that these identifications set. This has indeed been the question of paramount significance: Are we, following Descartes and chiefly Kant, to see cognition/constitution as the main, even the only, prerogative of human consciousness, as the only definitive access to reality? In a bold move not only has this classic assumption had to be put in doubt but after a long philosophical maturation an alternative approach has also been elaborated, one avoiding the circumscribing difficulties of the originary Husserlian bet on intentionality and the constitutive bent in consciousness and so getting us out of that cul-de-sac and into the open. New access to the reality of the manifestation of things and beings, of being and becoming, of living and cognizing is indispensable.