Science and the Life-World - 9780804756044

Science and the Life-WorldEssays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences\nAuthor(s): David Hyder, Hans-Jrg Rheinberger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804756044, 978-0804756044\nSynopsis\nThis book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's last work has never received the attention its author's prominence demands. In the Crisis, Husserl considers the gap that has grown between the \""life-world\"" of everyday human experience and the world of mathematical science. He argues that the two have become disconnected because we misunderstand our own scientific pastwe confuse mathematical idealities with concrete reality and thereby undermine the validity of our immediate experience. The philosopher's foundational work in the theory of intentionality is relevan.