Dallas Willard’s Contribution to Phenomenology

Abstract

Dallas Willard’s contribution to phenomenology is presented in terms of his articles on, and translations into English of, Edmund Husserl’s early philosophical writings (i.e., those in the decade prior to Husserl’s 1900 publication Logical Investigations), which single-handedly prevented them from falling into oblivion, both literally and philosophically. Willard’s account of Husserl’s “negative critique” of formalized logic in those writings, and argument for its contemporary relevance, is presented and largely endorsed.