Crisis and Reflection

Abbreviations of Husserl's works. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Science and Reflection. Reflection as Besinnung. The claim of science. Critique and Besinnung. The 'grip' of meaning. Life and world. The theme of history. One: The Concept of Crisis (Crisis §§1-7). Is there a crisis? 'Vernunft wird Unsinn, Wohltat Plage'. A brief history of the concept of crisis. Two readings. Two: The Manifold Sense of Foundation (Crisis §15). Establishment and Sedimentation. Ur-Stiftung, Nach-Stiftung, End-Stiftung. Three: Galileo and Modern Science (Crisis §§8-10). The history of 'obviousness' (Selbstverständlichkeit). What Galileo took for granted. The strange new idea of nature. Technique and induction. Galileo's 'fateful omission'. Four: The Origin of Geometry. The indifference of ideality and language. Tradition and the problem of the 'first acquisition'. The primacy of the I and the proto-community of geometers. Writing and the 'seduction of language'. The problem of the reactivation of origins. The origin of philosophy. Five: The Problem of the Lifeworld (Crisis §§28-34). The givenness of the world. The question of the world. Modality, problematicity, apriori. The subjectivity of the world. Six: The Phenomenological Reduction (Crisis §§ 35-55). Epoche, conversion, and still-life. Reduction as phenomenalization. Difficulties. The paradox of subjectivity. Conclusion. Summary of the interpretation. Some questions: Besinnung, Einströmen, and Innerlichkeit. References. Index.