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Crises have always been a topic for historical, economic, political, and sociological investigations. So they appear specifically bound to certain areas of problems, and specialized scientific research is challenged to analyze and to search for ways to surmount them. That does not contradict the fact that for the solution of such problems — according to the extent of the increasing complexity and interdependency of the symptoms of a crisis — more and more interdisciplinary scientific research and international cooperation is required.
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Max Weber, the outstanding sociologist and founder of sociology as a modern science also saw in “the breakdown of the legitimate government until 1918” at the same time a “distortion of traditional normativity” by the war and in this manner tried to explain “the systematic habituation to illegal behavior.” Cf. Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Grundriß der verstehenden Soziologie, (Tübingen: Paul Siebeck, 1922), I. Teil, 3. Kapitel, § 13.
Husserl had stated essentially the same in 1912: “Es gilt, dem unerträglichen Notstand der Vernunft ein Ende zu machen, die inmitten aller Reichtümer theoretischen Besitzes ihr eigentliches Ziel, das Weltverständnis, die Einsicht in die Wahrheit, immer ferner rücken sieht... durch klärende, verdeutlichende, letztbegründende Arbeit” (Hua V, 96f.). Cf. also Elisabeth Ströker, “Husserls transzendentale Phänomenologie: Philosophia perennis in der Krise der europäischen Kultur,” in Husserl Studies 5 (1988), 197–217 and in Profile der Phänomenologie (Freiburg/München: 1989), 11-38.
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Ströker, E. (1997). Crisis of European Culture: A Heritage of Problems in Husserlian Philosophy. In: The Husserlian Foundations of Science. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8824-9_13
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