Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
An Introduction

This volume explains Husserl's diagnosis of threats to the West and his hope for a phenomenological response to renew humanity.

Dermot Moran (Author)

9780521895361, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 August 2012

340 pages
22.2 x 14.3 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg

'Moran's reconstruction of the vicissitudes surrounding the composition of the Crisis and the development of Husserl's thought leading up to his last work in chapter 1 is invaluable. By way of reactivating the text's cultural and philosophical context, Moran makes the Crisis work as an introduction for contemporary readers.' Andrea Staiti, Research in Phenomenology

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.

Preface
Introduction: Husserl's life and writings
1. Husserl's Crisis: an unfinished masterpiece
2. Galileo's revolution and the origins of modern science
3. The Crisis in psychology
4. Rethinking tradition: Husserl on history
5. Husserl's problematical concept of the life-world
6. Phenomenology as transcendental philosophy
7. The ongoing influence of Husserl's Crisis.

Subject Areas: Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF], History of Western philosophy [HPC]