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• Crisis of the European Sciences

  Husserl's diagnosis, in the Crisis (1936/1954), of a crisis that is not a crisis of the sciences' rigour or success but of their meaning for human life. The positive sciences flourish; what has collapsed is their bearing on the "problems o…

• Europe as the Crisis of Play Frank Chouraqui, 2025

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter

• Europe as the Crisis of Play

  Chouraqui's hypothesis (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) about the essence of European modernity: that it is the cultural invention of seriousness, and therefore that Europe is best defined as the graveyard of play. Europe is not a…

• Good Ambiguity / Bad Ambiguity

  The structural distinction at the heart of Merleau-Ponty's 1960-61 course on "Philosophy and Nonphilosophy since Hegel." Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit contains a good ambiguity — the ineinander of phenomenology and the absolute, liv…

• Nonphilosophy

  The organizing concept of Merleau-Ponty's 1959 course "The Possibility of Philosophy Today." Nonphilosophy designates not the absence or negation of philosophy but a dual condition: the destruction of classical philosophy (substance, subje…

• The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology Edmund Husserl, 1954

  Author: Edmund Husserl · Year: 1936 (Parts I–II in Philosophia I) / 1954 (full text, Husserliana VI; this reading: David Carr trans., Northwestern UP 1970) · Type: book (unfinished; "An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy")