It is easy enough to understand how the analysis of actual experience has established itself, in modern reﬂection, as a radical contestation of positivism and eschatology; how it has tried to restore the forgotten dimension of the transcendental; how it has attempted to exorcise the na ve discourse of a truth reduced wholly to the empirical, and the prophetic discourse which with similar na vet promises at last the eventual attainment by man of experience.