The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological PhilosophyThe Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl provides not only a history of philosophy but a philosophy of history. As he says in Part I, "The genuine spiritual struggles of European humanity as such take the form of struggles between the philosophies, that is, between the skeptical philosophies--or nonphilosophies, which retain the word but not the task--and the actual and still vital philosophies. But the vitality of the latter consists in the fact that they are struggling for their true and genuine meaning and thus for the meaning of a genuine humanity." |
Contents
The failure of the new science after its initial success the | 10 |
The project of the investigations of this work | 16 |
Galileos mathematization of nature | 23 |
The origin of dualism in the prevailing exemplary role | 60 |
Descartes as the primal founder not only of the modern idea | 73 |
Descartess obtrusive interest in objectivism as the reason | 81 |
The genuine philosophical motif hidden in the absurdity | 88 |
Preliminary discussion of the concept of the transcendental | 97 |
B The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Phi | 191 |
The fateful separation of transcendental philosophy and psy | 198 |
Analysis of the reorientation from the psychological attitude | 208 |
Preliminary discussion of the absurdity of giving equal status | 215 |
Cartesian dualism as the reason for the parallelization Only | 221 |
The dualism of the abstractions grounded in experience | 230 |
70 The difficulties of psychological abstraction The paradox | 241 |
The relation of transcendental psychology to transcendental | 257 |
A The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Phi | 103 |
The lifeworld can be disclosed as a realm of subjective phe | 111 |
The possibility of a hidden truth in Kants transcendental phi | 118 |
The epoche | 135 |
thing | 142 |
39 The peculiar character of the transcendental epoche as a total | 148 |
Characterization of a new way to the reduction as contrasted | 154 |
the basic sub | 161 |
Preliminary concept of transcendental constitution as original | 167 |
The task of an ontology of the lifeworld | 173 |
A The Vienna Lecture | 269 |
B Supplementary Texts | 301 |
The Attitude of Natural Science and the Attitude of Human | 315 |
Philosophy as Mankinds SelfReflection the SelfRealization | 335 |
Objectivity and the World of Experience | 343 |
The Origin of Geometry | 353 |
The LifeWorld and the World of Science | 379 |
Finks Appendix on the Problem of the Unconscious | 385 |
Finks Outline for the Continuation of the Crisis | 397 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute accomplishment actual already apodictic appearance attitude become belongs Biemel's Cartesian causal concepts concrete consciousness correlation Crisis cultural Descartes determined Edmund Husserl empirical ence enological epoche essential everything exact existing experience experienced experiential fact function Galileo genuine geometry ground historical horizon human humanistic Husserl idea ideal infinite infinity inquiry intentional intentionality interest intuition Kant knowledge life-world living body logical manners of givenness merely method naïve naïveté natural science norms numbers objective science objectivism obviously ontic meaning ontic validity ontology original particular perception phenomenology philoso physical positive sciences possible praxis precisely prescientific presupposes primal priori problem psychic psychology psychophysical question radical rational reflection Roman Ingarden scientific scientists self-evidence sense shapes sort soul spatiotemporal speak sphere spirit structure subject matter surrounding world systematic task teleology thematic theoretical theory things thinking tion transcendental philosophy transcendental subjectivity transformation true truth ultimately understand unity universal universal philosophy whole