Solipsism, Intersubjectivity and Lebenswelt

Abstract

At the last period of his activity Husserl gave much thought to what he called the crisis of science. This crisis related to the science of what was then the present time, i.e. the thirties of our century, and went back into the past, at least to the beginning of modern science in the days of Galileo and Descartes. Husserl saw the crisis also affecting philosophy, as the general scheme of all sciences, and the whole European society. Following his analysis of this crisis Husserl arrived at a new concept of phenomenology (without cancelling the previous one) — the mundian phenomenology, in the center of which we could find the concept of the Lebenswelt, the world of primary, concrete experience.