Original scientific paper
THE CONCEPT OF EUROPE AS A RATIONAL COMMUNITY: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HUSSERL'S UNDERSTANDING OF EUROPEAN CULTURE
Goran Gretić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article is dedicated to Professor Richard Wisser. It is a critical analysis of Husserl's essay The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. The author first outlines Husserl's diagnosis of the crisis of science, philosophy and culture, followed by the elements and the mechanisms of that crisis. The root of the crisis of European science and culture lies in foregoing the genuine productive humanity. The authentic humanity cannot be based nor explained from its objectivizations but solely through the analysis of its productive imagination. The author also deals with the crisis of spiritual sciences, which he claims have brought about the loss of insight into the ultimate purpose of the existence of Europe as a brainchild of the historical humanity.
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105747
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Publication date:
18.6.1997.
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