{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-meaning-and-the-life-world-husserl-heidegger-arendt-patocka-9780821422489","title":"The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World: Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patocka","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World, \u003c\/i\u003e Ľubica Učník examines the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl's final work, which she argues is very much with us today: 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 Patočka.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor Husserl, 1930s Europe was characterized by a growing irrationalism that threatened to undermine its legacy of rational inquiry. Technological advancement in the sciences, Husserl argued, had led science to forget its own foundations in the primary \"life-world\" the world of lived experience. Renewing Husserl's concerns in today's context, Učník first provides an original and compelling reading of his oeuvre through the lens of the formalization of the sciences, then traces the unfolding of this problem through the work of Heidegger, Arendt, and Patočka.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough many scholars have written on Arendt, none until now has connected her philosophical thought with that of Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka. Učník provides invaluable access to the work of the latter, who remains understudied in the English language. She shows that together, these four thinkers offer new challenges to the way we approach key issues confronting us today, providing us with ways to reconsider truth, freedom, and human responsibility in the face of the postmodern critique of metanarratives and a growing philosophical interest in new forms of materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lubica Ucník\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Continental Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821422489","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175697473673,"sku":"9780821422489","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_04c2d664-5bbe-4400-bb08-c72d69b7157d.jpg?v=1768892317","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-crisis-of-meaning-and-the-life-world-husserl-heidegger-arendt-patocka-9780821422489","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}