Crisis and Husserlian Phenomenology

"This is a remarkable book. Knies has an unerring feel for phenomenological description and writes in an elegant, jargon-free style accessible even to readers who have no prior knowledge of Husserl and the phenomenological tradition. In a completely original way, Knies moves from an analysis of what it is to “presuppose” something to a defense of transcendental phenomenology as “awakening” to a “naivete” for which we henceforth become responsible. What Husserl called “crisis” thus belongs to subjectivity as well as to history, a theme that is deeply pursued in this exemplary work of philosophy. A must-read. * Steven Crowell, Mullen Professor of Humanities, Rice University, USA * Returning ""to the things themselves"" with philosophical acumen and philological accuracy, Kenneth Knies's Crisis and Husserlian Phenomenology sets an excellent example of how to do phenomenology with and beyond Husserl about crucial concerns that he and we share, for example, the power of presuppositions, the force of awakenings, the attraction of attitudes, the necessity of appropriations, and the significance of seriousness—just to name a few. * George Heffernan, Professor of Philosophy, Merrimack College, USA * Kenneth Knies offers an expansive investigation of the connection in Husserl's thinking between a phenomenology of consciousness and a phenomenology of awakening in a time of crisis. Based on a balanced combination of illuminating interpretations of Husserl's writings and suggestive developments of key phenomenological concepts, Knies' work ranges over a host of themes in exploring the complexity and challenge of self-reflection and self-responsibility, not only for the crisis of Husserl's time, but just as much for our own. * Nicolas De Warren, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, USA *"