Australia and New Zealand

The chapter analyses the influence and reception of phenomenological philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, including the following:: (1) original phenomenological investigations and/or discoveries; (2) the interpretation, exegesis and translation of classical phenomenological texts; (3) the use of classical phenomenology for the purpose of contributing to contemporary philosophical and interdisciplinary debates; or (4) teaching of phenomenology in Australasian universities and the spreading of phenomenological ideas to the wider Australasian public. Australasian phenomenologists have, and continue to, make important contributions to categories (2)–(4). But there is a lack regarding (1). Notwithstanding that what phenomenology is is contested and continuously transformed, it is still fair to say that in so far as (1) is concerned, ‘Australasian phenomenology’ designates a promise yet to be fulfilled.