A REPLY TO SERENA FELOJ ON THE POWERS OF PURE REASON

Abstract

I wish to thank Serena Feloj for her generous discussion of my book. I will try to answer her questions by beginning with the issue of influence. Serena asks if my interpretation of Kant is indebted to phenomenology (with regard to the dependence on givenness), and later she claims, this time without questions, that I reveal a debt to Hegel’s philosophy (on the notion of form). However intriguing and fruitful I may find relating Hegel and Husserl,2 there are certain discrepancies and theoretical differences in their respective views on the relation between thought and reality that are too obvious to ignore.