"A crise das ciências européias e a fenomenologia transcendental" de Edmund Husserl: uma apresentação

Abstract

The present study aims to present one of the most important and difficult works of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology , 1936. It is a significant work in Husserl s development because he evolves the concept of life-world (Lebenswelt), but, besides, the text also reveals another novelty dimension: this is the first work in which Husserl takes expressly a position about history and deals with the problem of historicity of philosophy, doing long historical-teleological analysis. However, before understanding why it is possible to declare a crisis of sciences , why, for Husserl, logic, mathematics and physics were still in need of a last grounding and, finally, why philosophy is the science capable of providing such grounding, it is necessary to pay special attention to his notion of science. The historical-teleological analysis play, indeed, an outstanding role in the last great work of Husserl, corresponding to the next logic step: to show how , historically, the mistakes of philosophy and science have been possible. Husserl analyses the intrinsic teleology of the history of philosophy in the search for its own grounding, which was not correctly captured by both of main positions of modern philosophy: physicalistic objectivism and transcendental subjectivism. Such path leads philosophy to the need of a specific task, which is phenomenology. This is called to accomplish an authentic and consistent intentional analysis of the consciousness that constitutes the world, revealing for the first time as a philosophical theme the life-world , which appears then as the grounding soil for all sciences: philosophy, logic, mathematics, natural sciences etc. The study then performs a revision of part of the literature regarding the concept of life-world , following detailed considerations of a few important critics: in the perspective of the evolution of the idea of world in Husserl s texts, in the perspective of intersubjective constitution of the world and historical relativism, but also in the perspective of a universum of being and truth , and finally, in the perspective of the totality of intentional life. Regarding the problems of the ways into transcendental philosophy, corresponding to the third part of the text, we have analysed in this study only the way by inquiring back from the pregiven lifeworld, while the way from psychology was left for a future investigation