Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology [Paperback]

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.

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.

Translator's Introduction

Part I. The Crisis of the Sciences as Expression of the Radical Life-Crisis of European Humanity
Part II. Clarification of the Origin of the Modern Opposition between Physicalistic Objectivism and Transcendental Subjectivism
Part III. The Clarification of the Transcendental Problem and the Related Function of Psychology
              A. The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Philosophy by Inquiring back from the Pregiven Life-World
Part III   B. The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Philosophy from Psychology

Appendixes
     A. The Vienna Lecture
I. Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity
     B. Supplementary Texts
II. Idel¸