Abstract

This chapter explores the implications of the book's attempt to understand the role that futurity plays in the phenomenological method. These implications are both within the book (for example, why the discussion of Husserl, Levinas and Derrida but not of Heidegger; why the focus on methodological issues) and beyond the book (for example, how futurity can help us see the continuity between Husserl and the 'theological turn' in phenomenology). It then provides an overview of the argument of the entire book, leading to the conclusions that: a) an understanding of futurity is essential to any understanding of phenomenology; b) phenomenology has an essentially non-epistemological focus; and c) phenomenology is best understood as the promissory discipline.

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