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<p>This paper examines, in five parts, Husserl’s concept of crisis in his late great work, <i>The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology</i>. Part One offers a new motivation for an old investigation. Part Two provides a succinct survey of the several senses of <i>crisis</i> in Husserl’s <i>The Crisis</i> and identifies two of the leading ones, namely, <i>crisis</i> understood as the questionability of the scientificity of the sciences and <i>crisis</i> understood as the loss of their meaningfulness for life. Part Three addresses the chronic controversy concerning the relationship between these two leading senses of the word <i>crisis</i> in <i>The Crisis</i>. Part Four enhances the horizon of the inquiry by drawing on statements from Husserl’s Vienna Lecture and Prague Lectures. Part Five concludes with observations on what lessons “<i>we ourselves</i>, we philosophers of the present”, can learn from Husserl’s “sense-reflections” (“Besinnungen”) on the crisis of the sciences, the crisis of philosophy, and the crisis of existence.</p>

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On the Several Senses of Crisis in Husserl’s The Crisis

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    2025年11月4日

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  • George Heffernan

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This paper examines, in five parts, Husserl’s concept of crisis in his late great work, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Part One offers a new motivation for an old investigation. Part Two provides a succinct survey of the several senses of crisis in Husserl’s The Crisis and identifies two of the leading ones, namely, crisis understood as the questionability of the scientificity of the sciences and crisis understood as the loss of their meaningfulness for life. Part Three addresses the chronic controversy concerning the relationship between these two leading senses of the word crisis in The Crisis. Part Four enhances the horizon of the inquiry by drawing on statements from Husserl’s Vienna Lecture and Prague Lectures. Part Five concludes with observations on what lessons “we ourselves, we philosophers of the present”, can learn from Husserl’s “sense-reflections” (“Besinnungen”) on the crisis of the sciences, the crisis of philosophy, and the crisis of existence.