SURRENDER-AND-CATCH AND PHENOMENOLOGY.

This article focuses on the concept of surrender-and-catch phenomenology. The ideal of science is the most obviously self-critical, self-questioning intellectual activity, which systematically looks for exceptions which might explode regularities hypothesized and searches for explanations, hypotheses, interpretations, hunches, clues which differ from those which to the scientists best knowledge and conscience are true and certain. In terms of surrender-and-catch, the catch intends is knowledge of how things actually appear, that is, it is to get hold of their essence or eidos to get clarity on their meaning. The aim of clarifying intersubjective understanding is the illumination of how the transcendental and the empirical interact and such an aim would have been a response to the world not as of purely epistemological appeal but also as demanding moral, political, aesthetic response. The subjective meaning is the aim of understanding in the social sciences and humanities, the hoped-for result of acting on the injunction to get inside the other, to place a person into the others shoes, to look at the world from the others point of view.