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.
...this reconciliation may also create a shared world of meaning in another way. By bringing closer the objective and subjective points of view and recognising the constant oscillation from one to ...the other, we may also bridge the gap between the view of illness as a pathology and illness as a way of being, and so reduce the distance between these two contrasting perspectives present in the clinic.
The question of whether a proper phenomenological investigation and analysis requires one to perform the epoché and the reduction has not only been discussed within phenomenological philosophy. It is ...also very much a question that has been hotly debated within qualitative research. Amedeo Giorgi, in particular, has insisted that no scientific research can claim phenomenological status unless it is supported by some use of the epoché and reduction. Giorgi partially bases this claim on ideas found in Husserl’s writings on phenomenological psychology. In the present paper, I discuss Husserl’s ideas and argue that while the epoché and the reduction are crucial for transcendental phenomenology, it is much more questionable whether they are also relevant for a non-philosophical application of phenomenology.
This book provides an extensive treatment of Husserl's phenomenology of time-consciousness. Nicolas de Warren uses detailed analysis of texts by Husserl, some only recently published in German, to ...examine Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity. He traces the development of Husserl's thinking on the problem of time from Franz Brentano's descriptive psychology, and situates it in the framework of his transcendental project as a whole. Particular discussions include the significance of time-consciousness for other phenomenological themes: perceptual experience, the imagination, remembrance, self-consciousness, embodiment, and the consciousness of others. The result is an illuminating exploration of how and why Husserl considered the question of time-consciousness to be the most difficult, yet also the most central, of all the challenges facing his unique philosophical enterprise.
In the original publication of an article the name “Idhe” occurs incorrectly including in the very beginning, in the title of the review. Now the correct name has been published in this correction.
Kant, in his precritical writing Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume (1768), makes a remarkable effort to show that the reality proper to the concept of space is related to ...the live body itself as a system of orientation that would correspond, to some way, to the Husserlian characterization of the Leib as absolute here. Indeed, it is possible to find in Kantian argumentation the idea that we can only distinguish the directions of space insofar as these are determined concerning the sides of our live body. In this work, I will present a phenomenological approximation or reading on this very brief dissertation emphasizing the “own reality” of space and its relationship with our corporality, in other words, between the complementarity of the living own body (Leib) with space.
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo hacer explícito las principales influencias de dos maestros de Husserl en el desarrollo y consolidación de su fenomenología, a saber, Franz Brentano y Carl ...Stumpf. En primer lugar, se explorará el itinerario académico del joven Husserl. A continuación, el análisis de la propuesta filosófica de Brentano nos ofrecerá las herramientas conceptuales para comprender la introducción del concepto de «intencionalidad» y la primera definición de la fenomenología como “psicología descriptiva”. Por último, la propuesta de Stumpf nos procurará una clara idea de la evolución de la escuela de Brentano en relación a la noción de fenómeno psíquico. De este último autor, Husserl asumirá la importante noción fenomenológica de «estado de cosa» (Sachverhalte).
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) is regarded as the founder of transcendental phenomenology, one of the major traditions to emerge in twentieth-century philosophy. In this book Andrea Staiti unearths and ...examines the deep theoretical links between Husserl's phenomenology and the philosophical debates of his time, showing how his thought developed in response to the conflicting demands of Neo-Kantianism and life-philosophy. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel, as well as Husserl's writings on the natural and human sciences that are not available in English translation, Staiti illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century philosophy and enriches our understanding of Husserl's thought. His book will interest scholars and students of Husserl, phenomenology, and twentieth-century philosophy more generally.
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