Abstract

This is a doctoral dissertation submitted in Utrecht in 1991. The four main parts of the text are preceded by a substantial introduction, and followed by a very important bibliography. In spite of classifying his work as belonging in the type of research called Begriffsgeschichte, the author tells us that he has done a history of the term "phenomenology" rather than of the concept of phenomenology. To justify this, Bokhove quotes Rothacker: "Terms and problems have a history. Not properly the concept as such".