Crisis and Reflection

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Husserl's works -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Science and Reflection1 -- Reflection as Besinnung -- The claim of science -- Critique and Besinnung -- The "grip" of meaning -- Life and world -- The theme of history -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter Two: The Manifold Sense of Foundation (Crisis 15) -- Establishment and Sedimentation -- Ur-Stiftung, Nach-Stiftung, End-Stiftung -- Chapter Three: Galileo and Modern Science (Crisis 8-10) -- The history of "obviousness" (Selbstverst??ndlichkeit) -- What Galileo took for granted -- The strange new idea of nature -- Technique and induction -- Galileo's "fateful omission" -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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, Einstr??men, and Innerlichkeit -- References.