{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

I was very fortunate to have been able to track down a hardcover 1979 reprint of the 1955 The Challenge of Existentialism for only four dollars (with free shipping) - the next least expensive hardcover was over $50, hence the best bet is the Kindle version from Amazon: $5.49 which is not to be found on Library Genesis.

Also of interest is a paperback I got my hands on for about $20:  The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild edited by Sugarman and Duncan.

I need a magnifying glass to read them, so that forces my brain to read slower than normal, and that can be annoying; but I think John Wild's work is worth investigating even though he totally ignores Schopenhauer (as though Schopenhauer had never existed).  I am sure this is because Wild was opposed to "idealism" and wanted to embark upon what might be called a radically empirical approach to a phenomenology of existence.  He seems to have wanted to take a different route than Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology.

What I like about Wild is his animosity toward Analytical Philosophy, the kind which seems to think it is the only game in town in Anglo-American academia.  I also think he is worthy of our attention since he saw American and English academic philosophy as being bankrupt because of the focus on analytic philosophy and not enough attention paid to existentialism and incorporating phenomenological methods into the day to day existence of the living in the life-world, or Lebenswelt.

I just wanted to keep you posted on my "extra-curricular" activities outside of "school mathematics" ... A certain kind of philosophy still appeals to me, and I think the work of John Wild may help me to articulate my specific animosity toward academic "Anglo-American" Analytic Philosophy.