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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Husserl'S Crisis Of The European Sciences And Transcendental Phenomenology : An Introduction by Dermot Moran
The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserls 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 Husserls own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserls 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 Morans 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 Husserls work and of phenomenology in general.show more