Crisis and the unconscious: another look at the lifeworld
In his last published work, the Crisis of the European Sciences, Husserl introduces the question of the »lifeworld« (Lebenswelt) in connection with his diagnosis of a crisis in the modern sciences and in opposition to the self-understanding these sciences have of the ›world‹ and also of cons...
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Karl Alber
2024
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| Sumario: | In his last published work, the Crisis of the European Sciences, Husserl
introduces the question of the »lifeworld« (Lebenswelt) in connection
with his diagnosis of a crisis in the modern sciences and in opposition
to the self-understanding these sciences have of the ›world‹ and also
of consciousness. What does it mean that the sciences are »in a crisis«?
Husserl discusses two senses of this expression.1
In a first sense,
internal to science itself, there can be a crisis if »its genuine scientific
character, the whole manner in which it has set its task and developed
a methodology for it, has become questionable« (Hua VI, 1 [3]). To
this possibility, the objection can be advanced that such a questioning
is groundless, not only with regard to the exact natural but also to
the human sciences. But in a second sense, which is not internal to
the practice of science, it is still possible to say that there is a crisis
because science no more deals with the most essential questions of
human existence, those questions that are »decisive for a genuine
humanity« (Hua VI, 3–4 [6]). Despite the theoretical achievements
and the material ›prosperity‹ modern sciences have brought about,
Husserl claims that they have been progressively losing sense for
human life. This is so because the very demand for objectivity that
characterizes them has eventually led them to abandon any reference
to the specific problems and concerns of humankind... |
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