The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World - Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patocka

Lubica Ucník is an associate professor and academic chair in philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia. She is coeditor (with Ivan Chvatík and Anita Williams) of Asubjective Phenomenology: Jan Patocka’s Project in the Broader Context of His Work and The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility: Formalisation and the Life-World; and, with Ivan Chvatík, of the English translation of Patocka’s The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem (translated by Erika Abrams).

Summary

Ucník examines the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl’s final work: 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lubica Ucnik, Lubica Uecnaik
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780821422489
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2248-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 237 mm x 162 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 550 g
• Series: Series in Continental Thought; Series in Continental Thought
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day