The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and ...existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.
This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's ...last work has never received the attention its author's prominence demands. In theCrisis, Husserl considers the gap that has grown between the "life-world" of everyday human experience and the world of mathematical science. He argues that the two have become disconnected because we misunderstand our own scientific past-we confuse mathematical idealities with concrete reality and thereby undermine the validity of our immediate experience. The philosopher's foundational work in the theory of intentionality is relevant to contemporary discussions ofqualia, naive science, and the fact-value distinction. The scholars included in this volume consider Husserl's diagnosis of this "crisis" and his proposed solution. Topics addressed include Husserl's late philosophy, the relation between scientific and everyday objects and "worlds," the history of Greek and Galilean science, the philosophy of history, and Husserl's influence on Foucault.
The essay focuses on the rethinking of the conceptual circle normativity-truth-validity as regards its projection on the theory of law. Starting from the perspective of the “law in action”, that is ...to say by considering the experience/behaviour of the “common man”, the classical distinction between truth-validity can be rediscussed. This perspective is based on the concept of “common sense”: it is a very complex dimension composed by different strata and entails a new meditation on the pair “deontic-psychological” also in light of some Edmund Husserl’s clues. Accordingly, it is possible to grasp the pair truth-validity “in action” (i.e. within the common legal experience), in order to propose some “open” conclusions concerning the dimensions of law as well as the legal theory.
This article is a historical reading dedicated to rescuing aspects of Husserl's phenomenology and defending its reflexive advantages over a naturalistic and calculative view of the question of ...meaning. After presenting those aspects of Husserl's doctrine of intentionality that are compatible with a syntactic and computational structuralism, we present Husserl's idealized view of the structure of meaning production as a point of detachment from purely computational views. We compare this theory with the problem of the linguistic-semantic object of study, showing that it inevitably evokes skepticism about the (natural) reality of this semantic- object. We introduce transcendental reflection as an alternative to the problematization of this (non-natural) non-reality. We then show that this path opens the access to study the articulations of this (unnatural) objetc as institutionalized sociocultural consensuses. We assume that Husserl's attempt to draft a Theory of Science in the form of transcendental phenomenology canonised a model of critique of the technicality of European science that became a paradigm for bringing together subgroups of philosophical reflection that can tie the question of meaning back to both its gnostic past and its future as a study of circular presuppositions of interpretation--philosophical hermeneutics. Keywords: Husserl. Phenomenology. Semantics. Anti-naturalism. Transcendental.
This article seeks to discuss what one can understand about the productive character of consciousness from a phenomenological point of view, a topic that will be explored in relation to ...presentifications. First, I will reconstruct two models Husserl used in his attempts to capture what is specific to presentification (the pictorial model and the reproduction of impressions model). Then, I will broaden the results obtained through the second model by systematizing three associative forms which link presentified contents in the daydreaming experience (resemblance, contiguity, and evocativeness). Keywords: Husserl. Phenomenology. Association. Daydream. O artigo busca problematizar o que se pode entender, de um ponto de vista fenomenologico, por produtividade da consciencia, tema que sera explorado em relacao as presentificacoes. De inicio, reconstruimos dois modelos por meio dos quais Husserl tenta capturar a especificidade das presentificacoes (modelos pictorial e de reproducao de impressoes). Em seguida, propomos ampliar os resultados obtidos pelo segundo modelo pela sistematizacao de tres formas associativas por meio das quais os conteudos presentificados se concatenam na experiencia de devaneios (semelhanca, contiguidade e evocatividade). Palavras-chave: Husserl. Fenomenologia. Associacao. Devaneio.
Husserl's Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century "classical" phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosophy of science of his time, and retrospectively at his ...philosophy from a contemporary "postphenomenology." Of central interest are his infrequent comments upon technologies and especially scientific instruments such as the telescope and microscope. Together with his analysis of Husserl, Don Ihde ventures through the recent history of technologies of science, reading and writing, and science praxis, calling for modifications to phenomenology by converging it with pragmatism. This fruitful hybridization emphasizes human-technology interrelationships, the role of embodiment and bodily skills, and the inherent multistability of technologies. In a radical argument, Ihde contends that philosophies, in the same way that various technologies contain an ever-shortening obsolescence, ought to have contingent use-lives.
We present here the first translation into Portuguese of the famous manuscript D 17, written by Husserl between May 7th and 9th 1934, and published by M. Farber in 1940, in the volume Philosophical ...Essays in Memory of E. Husserl. The manuscript had in its envelope the following descriptive comment: "Overthrow of Copernican doctrine in the usual interpretation of a worldview. The original ark-Earth does not move. Fundamental investigations on the phenomenological origin of the corporeality of the spatiality of nature in the first sense of natural science. All these necessary initial investigations". Written in the free and lively style that characterizes the research manuscripts of Husserl's phenomenology, this text belongs to the group of manuscripts produced around Husserl's last published work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936). Whereas in the widely commented section9 of this work Husserl undertakes an analysis of modern science starting from the original institution of Galilei's physics, the starting point of The Reversal is the notion of nature that characterizes the Copernican world, which establishes the Earth as a physical body located within the infinite universe. The epoche (in the specific sense given to this term within Husserlian phenomenology) of the Copernican thesis leads Husserl to investigate the Earth in another transcendental function, namely, in its constitution as a ground and a foundation of reference for the experience of space, movement, and rest. Along with this first aspect linked to the sense of nature, the investigation of The Reversion encompasses another thematic field, where the manuscript touches the borders of phenomenological philosophy and challenges the theoretical limits established by orthodox interpretations of transcendental phenomenology: the relationship between Earth, historicity and intersubjectivity. Thus, the final part of the text is dedicated to the exposition of the Earth as the "original history" that links all relative histories of humanity organized in a multiplicity of territories. In Merleau-Ponty's terms, the Earth is, in this perspective, the reserve from which all life, all future, all history can issue. Keywords: Phenomenology; Transcendental; Nature; Earth; Territory; Body; Husserl. Apresentamos aqui a primeira traducao para o portugues do celebre manuscrito D 17, escrito por Husserl entre 7 e 9 de maio de 1934, e publicado por M. Farber em 1940, no volume Philosophical Essays in Memory of E. Husserl. O manuscrito possuia em seu envelope o seguinte comentario descritivo: "Reversao da doutrina copernicana na interpretacao da visao de mundo habitual. A arca-originaria Terra nao se move. Investigacoes fundamentais sobre a origem fenomenologica da corporeidade da espacialidade da natureza no sentido primeiro da ciencia natural. Todas estas investigacoes iniciais necessarias". Escrito no estilo livre e vivaz que caracteriza os manuscritos de pesquisa da fenomenologia de Husserl, este texto pertence ao grupo de manuscritos produzidos no entorno da ultima obra publicada de Husserl, A Crise das Ciencias Europeias e a Fenomenologia Transcendental (1936). Se no extensamente comentado section9 desta obra Husserl empreende uma analise da ciencia moderna partindo da instituicao originaria da fisica de Galilei, o ponto de partida de A Reversao e a nocao de natureza que caracteriza o mundo copernicano, a qual estabelece a Terra como um corpo fisico situado no interior do universo infinito. A epoche (no sentido especifico dado a este termo no interior da fenomenologia husserliana) da tese copernicana leva Husserl a investigacao da Terra em uma outra funcao transcendental, a saber, sua constituicao enquanto solo e fundamento de referencia para a experiencia do espaco, do movimento e do repouso. Ao lado deste primeiro aspecto ligado ao sentido de natureza, a investigacao de A Reversao abarca um outro campo tematico, onde o manuscrito toca as fronteiras da filosofia fenomenologica e desafia os limites teoricos estabelecidos pelas interpretacoes ortodoxas da fenomenologia transcendental: a relacao entre Terra, historicidade e intersubjetividade. Assim, a parte final do texto e dedicada a exposicao da Terra como elemento da "historia originaria" que vincula todas historias relativas da humanidade, a qual se organiza em uma multiplicidade de territorios ou moradas. Nos termos de Merleau-Ponty, a Terra e, sob esta perspectiva, a reserva de onde pode provir toda a vida, todo futuro e toda historia. Palavras-chave: Fenomenologia; Transcendental; Natureza; Terra; Territorio; Corpo; Husserl.
We present here the first translation into Portuguese of the famous manuscript D 17, written by Husserl between May 7th and 9th 1934, and published by M. Farber in 1940, in the volume Philosophical ...Essays in Memory of E. Husserl. The manuscript had in its envelope the following descriptive comment: "Overthrow of Copernican doctrine in the usual interpretation of a worldview. The original ark-Earth does not move. Fundamental investigations on the phenomenological origin of the corporeality of the spatiality of nature in the first sense of natural science. All these necessary initial investigations". Written in the free and lively style that characterizes the research manuscripts of Husserl's phenomenology, this text belongs to the group of manuscripts produced around Husserl's last published work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936). Whereas in the widely commented section9 of this work Husserl undertakes an analysis of modern science starting from the original institution of Galilei's physics, the starting point of The Reversal is the notion of nature that characterizes the Copernican world, which establishes the Earth as a physical body located within the infinite universe. The epoche (in the specific sense given to this term within Husserlian phenomenology) of the Copernican thesis leads Husserl to investigate the Earth in another transcendental function, namely, in its constitution as a ground and a foundation of reference for the experience of space, movement, and rest. Along with this first aspect linked to the sense of nature, the investigation of The Reversion encompasses another thematic field, where the manuscript touches the borders of phenomenological philosophy and challenges the theoretical limits established by orthodox interpretations of transcendental phenomenology: the relationship between Earth, historicity and intersubjectivity. Thus, the final part of the text is dedicated to the exposition of the Earth as the "original history" that links all relative histories of humanity organized in a multiplicity of territories. In Merleau-Ponty's terms, the Earth is, in this perspective, the reserve from which all life, all future, all history can issue.
