by Wolfe Mays It is a great pleasure and honour to write this preface. I first became ac- quainted with Herbert Spiegelberg's work some twenty years ago, when in 1960 I reviewed The Phenomenological Movement for Philosophical Books, one of the few journals in Britain that reviewed this book, which Herbert has jok- ingly referred to as "the monster." I was at that time already interested in Con- tinental thought, and in particular phenomenology. I had attended a course on phenomenology given by Rene Schaerer at Geneva when I was working there in 1955-6. I had also been partly instrumental in...