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Exegetics is the critical discourse or philosophical commentary, explanation, or argumentative interpretation of a text. Exegetical publications tend to take up in a critical, and philosophical manner the arguments and positions of the founding authors mentioned above as well as address theoretical issues of more exegetical philosophers and scholars of phenomenology. This literature is enormously variegated and extensive, sometimes offering interesting comparative studies and probing thought-provoking topics, other times texts that are steeped in “language” and only of interest and readable by specialized philosophers, and there are publications that are engaged in energetic hair-splitting, cleverly raising fault-finding objections, and serving academic exegetical arguments. The exegetical structures of these enormously diverse and numerous texts unfortunately may be seen to include an almost interminable array of historical, theoretical, and liberal topics that are sometimes tedious, pretentious, intellectualist, and captious. The etymology of the term “exegesis” and “exegetics” borrows from Latin and Greek, meaning exposition, narrative, and explanation, also numerical exegesis of mathematical solutions. Exegetical phenomenology tends to be meta- phenomenology and meta-meta-phenomenology. How to recognize this form of phenomenological publications? The general style of these publications is that they offer explanations of, theories about, comments on, and introductions to other published (meta-)phenomenological works, topics, and concerns that tend to be technical and/or historical in a philosophical or specialized disciplinary phenomenological sense.