Echoes of the Crisis in Contemporary French Phenomenology

HERNÁN INVERSO

Wuppertal

Congreso; New Phenomenological Perspectives on the Crisis and the Lifeworld; 2018

Wuppertal Universitaet

The philosophy of all times contains dark and pessimistic views about their situation and even the most optimistic start from a diagnosis of obstacles to be overcome in order to improve. Modernity multiplied these perspectives, as is seen from Spengler, Simone Weil and the authors of critical theory with their diagnosis of return to the barbarism. In this context, Husserl developed the Phenomenological perspective in which the program of radical foundation and the conception of Philosophy as the science of all sciences give way to a progressive detection of the elements that place in a crisis to Humanity, conceived as European Humanity by its origin but as universal by its vocation. The First World War and the fall into a second conflict traverse Husserl's texts which are increasingly concerned with the historical dimension.This line grew in many variants which show its dynamism as a space of integral theoretical development and not merely as stages connected by some kind of familiarity in their origin. In the present work, we are interested in characterising the Husserlian notion of crisis pointing to the elements that persist in the philosophies of M. Henry, J.- L. Marion and M. Richir, paying attention to the redefinitions of the notion of crisis and the way in which they conceive the impact that the crisis has on the University