The Phenomenology and the Human Sciences was originally intended to be, and its first volume appeared as, an annual supplement for The Philosophical Topics. With the demise of The Philosophical Topics, the supplement had to suffer the same fate. It is at this time, that the editors of Man and World (as well as Mr. Alexander Schimmelpenninck of the Martinus Nijhoff) very, kindly offered to publish the articles that I had solicited for the planned second volume of the Phenomenology and the Human Sciences in a special issue of Man and World, As the volume goes to press, I must place on record my gratitude to them. To the authors who have borne with me the long delay and uncertainty to which their contributions have been subjected in this process, I owe both gratitude and sincerest apologies.