Calls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. Claude Romano contends that the main concern of phenomenology, and its originality with respect to other philosophical movements of the last century, such as logical empiricism, the grammatical philosophy of Wittgenstein, and varieties of neo-Kantianism, was to provide a "new image of Reason”.

CLAUDE ROMANO teaches at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and Australian Catholic University. . His most recent works translated into English are Event and Time (2013) and Event and World (2009).

MICHAEL B. SMITH is a professor emeritus of French and philosophy at Berry College in Georgia; he has translated numerous philosophical works into English.