The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World
SERIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
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The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World
Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka
L’UBICA UČNÍK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Učník, Lubica, author.
Title: The crisis of meaning and the life-world : Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka / Lubica Učník.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: Series in Continental thought ; No. 49 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016040550| ISBN 9780821422489 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445884 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938. Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. | Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938—Influence. | Science—Philosophy. | History—Philosophy. |
Phenomenology. | Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976 | Arendt, Hannah, 1906–1975. | Patočka, Jan, 1907–1977.
Classification: LCC B3279.H93 K739 2016 | DDC 193—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040550
To Lenka, without whom this book would never have been conceived, although I doubt she knows it.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Back to the Things Themselves?
Edmund Husserl
Doxa and Epistēmē in Logical Investigations
The Appearance and That Which Appears
Doxa and Epistēmē: “Back to the Things Themselves”—Zu Den Sachen Selbst!