Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:11:34 +0900
From: Michael Greer <michael-AT-sdt820.chonju-tc.ac.kr>
Subject: PLC: Phenomenological-Lit crit


Dear Reg and others,

Trying to summarize Poulet is not an easy task as I have just been
re-reading his introduction to the _Studies_. Technically I don't think
he can be called a phenomenologist but seems to be a
proto-phenomenologist since much of the talk bears on the experience
of consciousness in history. Beginning with Thomism and Suarez and some
others who hold that God's creative act sustains the creature forever
he moves to the progressive awareness of dissolution, the isolation
of the ego, the need to remember and to project a future. There are
treatments of seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth century literary
figures and philosophers culminating in Bergson and Sartre. More later.

Michael
Jeonju Technical College, Korea