Husserl, Heidegger and the Crisis of Philosophical Responsibility
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125 R. PHILIP BUCKLEY
HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER AND THE CRISIS OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSIBILITY
Comite de redaction de la collection: President: S. Usseling (Leuven) Membres: L. Landgrebet (Koln), W. Marx (Freiburg i. Br.), J.N. Mohanty (Philadelphia), P. Ricreur (Paris), E. Stroker (KOln), J. Taminiaux (Louvain-Ia-Neuve), Secretaire: J. Taminiaux
HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER AND THE CRISIS OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSIBILITY
Husserl, Heidegger and the Crisis of Philosophica1 Responsibility
R. PHILIP BUCKLEY Husserl-Archief, K.U. Leuven
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 8uckley, R. Ph,l,p, 1959Husserl, He'degger, and the crisis of ph,losoph,cal responsibiiity I R. Philip 8uckley. p. cm. -- (Phaenomenologica ; 125) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-94-010-5090-6 ISBN 978-94-011-2470-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2470-6 1. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938. 2. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 3. Crises (Ph,losophy)--History--20th century. I. Title. II. Ser ies. B3279.H94B74 1992 142' .7--dc20 92-2549
ISBN 978-94-010-5090-6
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Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
Xl
FOREWORD
XV
PART ONE: HUSSERL AND THE CRISIS AS LOSS INTRODUCTION
3
CHAPTER ONE: Husserl's Description of the Crisis
9
(1) The crisis of the natural and human sciences
(i) The distinction between the natural and human sciences (ii) The distinction between the naturalistic and personalistic attitudes (iii) The domination of the natural scientific attitude (iv) The threat to the human sciences from within
9 10 11 13 17
(2) The crisis of philosophy
20
(3) The crisis of culture and the loss of the meaning of science for human life (i) The loss of the meaning of science for life (ii) The crisis of European culture
24 24 27
CHAPTER TWO: The Genesis of the Crisis
37
(1) The shape of history
37
(2) The history of philosophy and the history of the sciences
42
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(i) (ii)
Galileo: re-establishment and transformation Descartes to Kant: the struggle for subjectivity
42 49
CHAPTER THREE: The "Crisis" as Leitmotiv of Husserl's Thought
55
(1) Husserl and the crisis of mathematics and logic
56
(2) Philosophy and the crisis of culture
66
CHAPTER FOUR: The Overcoming of the Crisis of Forgetting
79
(1) The crisis as forgetting (i) Forgetting as a proper definition of the crisis (ii) Husserl's fear offorgetting (iii) The refinement of retention: sedimentation
80 80 84 87
(2) HusserI's solutions to the crisis (i) The world of the sciences and the life-world (ii) The p
