D. Laing, who does phenomenological work in the psychology of interpersonal perception and family disorders, are among the most notable. This important scientific outgrowth of Husserl's work is appropriate, since his texts consistently attempt to cast philosophy as a productive, rigorous, and disciplined science--in other words, to show that philosophy is a science that can serve to ground and stimulate the other sciences in the evident foundation, intuition, and interconnection of essences and concepts.
In addition to his impact on twentieth-century philosophy and the social sciences, Husserl maintains an influence, albeit perhaps a limited one, in the humanities, especially in literature and theology. Pieces of phenomenological literary criticism, particularly on modernist authors, continue to appear even into the twenty-first century. This growth happens despite the perception that most recent literary criticism has followed the later theoretical work of Michel Foucault and Derrida and their explicit (or attributed) arguments that phenomenology is a totalizing and therefore violent method of description. Similarly, in theology, writers such as Rudolph Otto and Paul Tillich, who carry out a kind of phenomenological description of the holy, remain recognizable figures.
In current philosophical circles, Husserl's work remains compelling for several contemporary Continental and analytic theorists.
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