“It is a joy for me to write an introduction to an anthology of selected texts by those phenomenologists who can be counted among the so-called “realistic phenomenology.” Despite the fact that this direction of modern philosophy does not yet have the degree of fame of analytical philosophy, existentialism, the transcendental phenomenology of the late Husserl or the hermeneutic school, in my opinion, it belongs to the most important philosophical movements of the 20th century, and indeed philosophy in in general. Therefore, I hope that this anthology will make its modest contribution to the fact that realistic phenomenology will receive more and more recognition, deserved by this school, and will take its rightful place both in the German-speaking and in the Russian-speaking and the entire Slavic intellectual space...”