Philosophers at the Front. Phenomenology and the First World War.

While Husserl himself took to the task in delivering patriotic lectures for war participants on "Fichte's Ideal of Humanity", Max Scheler became one of the most important authors associated with the so called Kriegsphilosophie, writing and lecturing extensively on the "Genius of War." Thus, in order to tackle the fundamental task of phenomenology, namely of accounting for sense-formation, one has to peek in, gain a "constructive intuition" (Schnell quotes Fink's term of konstruktive Anschauung), or a depiction (Bild) of the workings of anonymity itself. In another place in the book, Schnell emphasizes the necessity of clearly separating Reduktion from Induktion, leading-in, since the former opens up the field of transcendental subjectivity, whereas the latter leads into the domain of pre-subjective sense-formation (122). [Extracted from the article]