The call

John Anderson

pp. 213-227

in: Babette Babich (ed), From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

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.