Abstract

A sympathetic but critical examination of some of the presuppositions of Husserl's phenomenological program, leading to an exposition of their contradictory nature. In the light of this critique, Eley examines Husserl's view of the crisis of our age as rooted in the antithesis of life-world and technology. The book concludes with a demand for a reconstruction of the phenomenological program and a more searching examination of the crisis of our age. Exceptionally clear, the book prepares the ground for a more intelligent assessment of Husserl's phenomenology and for a better understanding of Heidegger's departure from the phenomenological program.--K. H.