This compendium of 13 papers attempts to examine how phenomenology relates to language and meaning. It makes an in-depth study of new aspects of language in phenomenological thought and research that explores the respective potentials and limits of linguistic expression and conceptualization.

Taking a close look at Husserl’s theory of meaning, it discusses at length Krishnamurti’s concept of consciousness and truth, Martin Heidegger’s views on language and reality, the phenomenological concept of nothingness, and the notion of ‘given’ in Scheler’s phenomenology. The place of phenomenology in Indian philosophy has also been ascertained.