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The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World - Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patocka (Hardcover)
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The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World - Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patocka (Hardcover)
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In The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World, Lubica Ucnik examines
the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl's
final work, which she argues is very much with us today: how to
reconcile scientific rationality with the meaning of human
existence. To investigate this conundrum, she places Husserl in
dialogue with three of his most important successors: Martin
Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Jan Patocka. For Husserl, 1930s
Europe was characterized by a growing irrationalism that threatened
to undermine its legacy of rational inquiry. Technological
advancement in the sciences, Husserl argued, had led science to
forget its own foundations in the primary "life-world": the world
of lived experience. Renewing Husserl's concerns in today's
context, Ucnik first provides an original and compelling reading of
his oeuvre through the lens of the formalization of the sciences,
then traces the unfolding of this problem through the work of
Heidegger, Arendt, and Patocka. Although many scholars have written
on Arendt, none until now has connected her philosophical thought
with that of Czech phenomenologist Jan Patocka. Ucnik provides
invaluable access to the work of the latter, who remains
understudied in the English language. She shows that together,
these four thinkers offer new challenges to the way we approach key
issues confronting us today, providing us with ways to reconsider
truth, freedom, and human responsibility in the face of the
postmodern critique of metanarratives and a growing philosophical
interest in new forms of materialism.
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