World and Life-World - Aspects of the Philosophy of Edmund Husserl

The authors investigates in depth the development of two central notions in Edmund Husserl's philosophy : the notion of world and life-world. He considers some of the difficulties given in these concepts, evaluates criticism on Husserlian phenomenology and, with reference to the work of Jan Patocka, he offers an outline of a new, critical reading of the method of Husserl's epoche.