Homo Interrogans

Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discourse of questioning answering. Bruin address the "logic" of questions and argues, along phenomenological lines that internationality has the structure of questioning and answering. Here, he breaks rank with the better known and more traditional speech-act, grammatical, semantic, and logical approaches to the study of questioning to explore question from a phenomenological perspective.

Particular attention is given to the internal aspects of questions and answer and the question-answer relationship. The author goes beyond simply demonstrating that questioning is somehow basic to human existence to explore the mechanics of why this is so.