Hegel, Husserl, and the phenomenology of historical worlds

How can we philosophically describe the world we live in? When Hegel attempted his systematic account of the historical world, he needed to conceive of history as rational progress to allow for such description. After the events of the twentieth century, we are rightfully doubtful about such progress. However, in the twentieth century, another German philosopher, Edmund Husserl, attempted a similar project when he realised that a philosophical account of our human experience requires attending to the historical world we live in. According to Husserl, the Western world is a world in crisis. In this book, Tanja Staehler explores how Husserl thus radicalises Hegel's philosophy by providing an account of historical movement as open. Husserl's phenomenology allows thinking of historical worlds in the plural, without hierarchy, determined by ethics and aesthetics.0Staehler argues that, through his radicalization of Hegel's philosophy, Husserl provides us with a historical phenomenology and a coherent concept of a culture that points to the future for phenomenology as a philosophy that provides the methodological grounding for a variety of qualitative approaches in the humanities and social sciences.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781786602862 ; 1786602865 ; 9781786602879 ; 1786602873
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: xi, 246 pages
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 ; Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938 ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Phänomenologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Lanham
• (who): Rowman & Littlefield International
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Staehler, Tanja

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