The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

Overview

The 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."

Details

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

1970

Pages

405

Language

EN

Categories

Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Philosophy / Movements / Transcendentalism, Philosophy / Individual Philosophers, Psychology / General, Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects

ISBN-13

9780810104587