The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility: Formalisation and the Life-World (Contributions to Phenomenology Book 76)

This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques of formalization, the life-world and responsibility, and a collation and comparison of Patočka’s and Husserl’s work on these themes. Considerable literature on Husserl is presented here and the two themes of epistemic responsibility and the life-world are discussed together. This work specifically emphasizes the interrelatedness of these existential aspects of his work – self-responsibility and the crisis – as not only epistemological, but also related to human life. This volume also introduces Jan Patočka to English-speaking readers as a phenomenologist in his own right. Patočka shows us, in particular, the significance of the modern abyss between our thinking and the world. Readers will discover that this abyss is of concern for our everyday experience because it leads to a rupture in our understanding of the world: between the world of our living and its scientific construct. We see that Patočka continually emphasized the relevance of Husserl’s work to existential questions relating to human responsibility and the life-world, which he admits is left largely implicit in Husserl’s work. This edited collection will spark discussion on the question of responsibility against the backdrop of formalized knowledge which is increasingly inaccessible to human understanding. Despite the complexity of some of the analyzed ideas, this book discusses these themes in a clear and readable way. This work is scholarly, exact in its discussion and authoritative in its reading, but at the same time accessible to anyone motivated to understand these debates. This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The authors deal with themes of formalisation of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques of formalisation, the life-world and responsibility, and a collation and comparison of Patočka’s and Husserl’s work on these themes. Considerable literature on Husserl is presented here and the two themes of epistemic responsibility and the life-world are discussed together. This work specifically emphasises the interrelatedness of these existential aspects of his work – self-responsibility and the crisis – as not only epistemological, but also related to human life. This volume also introduces Jan Patočka to English-speaking readers as a phenomenologist in his own right. Patočka shows us, in particular, the significance of the modern abyss between our thinking and the world. Readers will discover that this abyss is of concern for our everyday experience because it leads to a rupture in our understanding of the world: between the world of our living and its scientific construct. We see that Patočka continually emphasised the relevance of Husserl’s work to existential questions relating to human responsibility and the life-world, which he admits is left largely implicit in Husserl’s work. This edited collection will spark discussion on the question of responsibility against the backdrop of formalised knowledge which is increasingly inaccessible to human understanding. Despite the complexity of some of the analysed ideas, the authors discuss these themes in a clear and readable way. This work is scholarly, exact in its discussion and authoritative in its reading, but at the same time accessible to anyone motivated to understand these debates. This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The authors deal with themes of formalisation of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques of formalisation, the life-world and responsibility, and a collation and comparison of Pato♯‍kaĺls and Husserlĺls work on these themes.℗l Considerable literature on Husserl is presented here and the two themes of epistemic responsibility and the life-world are discussed together. This work specifically emphasises the interrelatedness of these existential aspects of his work ĺl self-responsibility and the crisis ĺl as not only epistemological, but also related to human life. This volume also introduces Jan Pato♯‍ka to English-speaking readers as a phenomenologist in his own right. Pato♯‍ka shows us, in particular, the significance of the modern abyss between our thinking and the world. Readers will discover that this abyss is of concern for our everyday experience because it leads to a rupture in our understanding of the world: between the world of our living and its scientific construct. We see that Pato♯‍ka continually emphasised the relevance of Husserlĺls work to existential questions relating to human responsibility and the life-world, which he admits is left largely implicit in Husserlĺls work. This edited collection will spark discussion on the question of responsibility against the backdrop of formalised knowledge which is increasingly inaccessible to human understanding. Despite the complexity of some of the analysed ideas, the authors discuss these themes in a clear and readable way. This work is scholarly, exact in its discussion and authoritative in its reading, but at the same time accessible to anyone mot Front Matter....Pages i-x The Phenomenological Critique of Formalism: Responsibility and the Life-World....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Edmund Husserl’s Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transcendentale Phänomenologie ....Pages 17-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Jan Patočka: From the Concept of Evidence to the Natural World and Beyond....Pages 31-42 Patočka on Galileo....Pages 43-55 Nostalgia and Phenomenon: Husserl and Patočka on the End of the Ancient Cosmos....Pages 57-78 Time in ‘Negative Platonism’....Pages 79-88 ‘ Quicquid Cogitat ’: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Subjectivity....Pages 89-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Everydayness, Historicity and the World of Science: Husserl’s Life-World Reconsidered....Pages 107-131 Husserl’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology of the Life-World as Culture Reconsidered....Pages 133-154 Mathesis Universalis and the Life-World: Finitude and Responsibility....Pages 155-174 Husserl and Heidegger on the Social Dimensions of the Life-World....Pages 175-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Formalisation and Responsibility....Pages 187-196 Perceiving Sensible Things: Husserl and the Act of Perception....Pages 197-209 Are We Still Afraid of Science?....Pages 211-219 Back Matter....Pages 221-223