ced by an involved, meaning-giving, doing subject. But if one
simply inverts the tradition, one risks being misunderstood and reappropriated, and, indeed,
Dagfinn Follesdal, the best interpreter of Husserl's phenomenology, has been led to
underestimate Heidegger's originality on just this point. In an article on the role of action in
Husserl and Heidegger, Follesdal interprets Heidegger as holding that Husserl and the
tradition overemphasized detached contemplation, and he agrees with what he takes to be