THE BODY AS SUBJECT

1. Galilean Science and the Life-World In Part I of The Crisis of European Sciences (1931), as we noted in section 3 of our Introduction, Husserl considers the nature of what he took to be a (then) contemporary cultural crisis: the collapse of faith in the sciences, and the flight into various forms of irrationalism. He offers a diagnosis for this crisis by sketching its origins in the historical development of philosophy and its relationship to the empirical sciences.