ABSTRACT. The contemporary crisis of the European sciences and arts is not simply European – it is a crisis of universal truth. But a response is possible, as Husserl suggests, if we revivify the task of philosophy as universal science. A renaissance, therefore, in the theory and practice of the sciences and arts that inaugurates a new way of translating the language and logic of philosophy – which has animated speaking and thinking from the Greeks to us – in order to consider what never comes to presence in speech or thought, but is only just implied. This would put an end to the assumption, which precipitated the crisis, that truth is a priori finite and closed, and mark the opening of science and art to implication. Phenomenology, therefore, would point the way to a cure for the crisis of the sciences and the arts – or, if not a cure, at least to a treatment which allows us to survive, at least for the time being.

Keywords: crisis; European; Husserl; implication; science; truth

How to cite: Haas, A. (2023). What’s so European about the crisis of the European sciences? Knowledge Cultures, 11(2), 63–75. https://doi.org/10.22381/kc11220234

Received 16 August 2022 • Received in revised form 14 March 2023
Accepted 17 March 2023 • Available online 1 August 2023