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As adults we play tennis, golf, poker, the stock market, music, etc. We seek games when the going is rough and we buy a lottery ticket. We travel to the mountains, the sea shore, the desert ... “to get away from it all,” that is to find meaning when it seems scarce. For if meaning is not now we believe it must have been and will return somehow.
Professor Richardson was among the very first to note and understand the new European thought which had been growing before the war and was flowering after the second world war, and intended to repair and restore the bond of European philosophy with the 2500 year tradition of philosophy which had begun in classical Greece. Professor Richardson has been most influential in calling American philosophers to the significance of this need, and to undertake the task of introducing and restating the European contribution needed to make it more available and its depth evident. This he has done quickly, thoroughly, and intelligibly. I thank him for his splendid work.
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Anderson, J.M. (1995). The Call. In: Babich, B.E. (eds) From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire. Phaenomenologica, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1624-6_14
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