Phenomenology, thanks to the works of its founder E. Husserl, his students and followers (M. Heidegger, J.-P. Sartre, M. Merleau-Ponty, etc.), has become one of the most significant areas of philosophical thought of the 20th century. The book by the modern French thinker Jean-François Lyotard provides both a detailed analysis of the main problems of phenomenology (problems of consciousness, intersubjectivity, eidetics, etc.) and the cultural and philosophical context of phenomenological thought. The book is addressed to readers interested in the history of ideas, philosophy and culture. http