Crisis and Reflection
Subtitle: An Essay on Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences (Phaenomenologica)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781402021749
Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy of science; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy; Movements - Phenomenology; Philosophy / Phenomenology; Reference; Phenomenology; Science
First sentence: Is there a crisis?
Description: "In his last work, Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl formulated a radical new approach to phenomenological philosophy. Unlike his previous works, in the Crisis Husserl embedded this formulation in an ambitious reflection on the essence and value of the idea of rational thought and culture, a reflection that he considered to be an urgent necessity in light of the political, social, and intellectual crisis of the interwar period in this book.

James Dodd pursues an interpretation of Husserl's text that emphasizes the importance of the problem of the origin of philosophy, as well as advances the thesis that, for Husserl, the "crisis of reason" is not contingent historical event, but a permanent feature of a life in reason generally."--BOOK JACKET.