Abstract
The article introduces the volume showing the historical and philosophical coincidence between phenomenology and ecology. Both arise from a reorientation of the relationship between subjectivity and reality in the course of the 19th century.
Human being and world no longer face each other, and the subject no longer functions as the all-encompassing autonomous pole of unity that it had become in the European modern era. The emphasis shifts to the whole of the reference, from which the elements of the relationship find their destiny.
Against this background, phenomenology and ecology simultaneously become the scene of a debate about the objective. However, since ecology from the outset adheres to the precondition of a sense of objectivity that is formed together with the European sciences, this debate is primarily driven by phenomenology.