Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the crisis of sciences, particularly of modern sciences, in their essential relation to the forgetfulness of the Husserlian Lebenswelt. This problematic, that Husserl put at the center of his investigations after having examined the fundaments and the methods of sciences, took its origin from two conferences he had delivered in Wien and in Prague in 1935. The result of these conferences was the book, posthumously published in 1954, under the title: The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Therefore, it was in this context that the philosopher called the attention to the fact that modern sciences had lost their meaning to humanity. For they had detached themselves from their Lebenswelt, that is, from the “life world”, which is the primordial, original, soil from where they were born and which they had abandoned on behalf of a so-called objective, positive, and factual scientific knowledge. We also underscore the fact that the concept of Lebenswelt gave rise to a multiplicity of interpretations in virtue of the very impossibility to delimit or to signify it in a definitive way.

Keywords: Lebenswelt, sciences, forgetfulness, subjectivity, objectivity.