Specter of Psychologism
Doxa and Epistēmē in Logical Investigations
The Appearance and That Which Appears
Doxa and Epistēmē: “Back to the Things Themselves”—Zu Den Sachen Selbst!
Mathematization of Nature: The Science of Reality
Galileo: A Discovering and a Concealing Genius
Conclusion: Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity
2. The Science of Λόγος and Truth—What “Things” Are
Martin Heidegger
The History of Thinking: Destruction
Neo-Kantianism
The Science of Λόγος and Truth
A Speaking Being
Categories
Ta Mathemata (Τἀ Μαθήματα)
The Space of Meaning
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Epistemology and Ockham’s Razor
The Facticity of Dasein
The Idea of Facticity as Opposed to the Idea of “Man”: Zur Sache Selbst
Conclusion
3. Heretical Reading: With Her and Against Her
Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Human Nature
Human Facticity: A Study of the Central Dilemmas Facing Modern Man
The Human Condition
The Victory of Modern Scientific Nature
What Arendt Elides: The Great Mathematical Drama
Being and Appearing
The Punctum Archimedis
World Alienation
What Is a Thing?
Homo Faber Revisited
Life as the Highest Good
The Space of Thinking: The Gap in Time
Conclusion
4. The Matter of Philosophy—Human Existence
Jan Patočka
From Kosmos to Modern Science
Myths
A Background to Patočka’s Discussion: Change, Motion, and Movement
Galileo
The Problem of Mathematization
Res Cogitans and Res Extensa
Historical Human Existence
Formalization and the Human Sphere
The Movement of Human Existence
Situational Being
Socrates
Conclusion
Conclusion: The Meaning of Human Existence
The Problem of Relativism
The Problem of Responsibility
The Space of Meaning
Husserl—The Problem with Science
Heidegger—Dasein and the Scientific Framing of the Life-World
Arendt—The Political and Dasein
Patočka—Phenomenology and Questioning
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Philosophy begins with wonder, as Plato and Aristotle taught us. This book began with my own wondering, which led me to search for the meaning of the notion of “crisis” in the title of Husserl’s book The Crisis of European Sciences. I followed many paths, some of which I shared with my students in philosophy at Murdoch University. They taught me a lot and helped me to clarify some of the complicated issues we encountered together. They also taught me that one can speak about Husserl’s and Heidegger’s ideas without being entangled in their language; and, in turn, I keep teaching
