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    The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology has long occupied a position amongst Edmund Husserl’s writings of almost singular renown and influence. It is easy to see why this should be so. The Crisis offered the reading public its first glimpse of a new Husserl, or at least one strikingly different in tone, mode of presentation, and thematic emphasis from the Husserl of Ideas I or Cartesian Meditations. In a seeming reversal of the Augustinian dictum that Husserl used to clo…Read more
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    Hegel’s God (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 57 (3): 616-617. 2004.
    The figure of the unhappy consciousness animates Hegel’s philosophical treatment of religion. Consciousness despairs and is unhappy because it cannot deal with the demands of its existence. Human beings are by their very nature agents who seek out the truth, yet the anguished plight of the unhappy consciousness consists in the fact that truth cannot be had; at this stage of the dialectic, truth and authority seem to be beyond human consciousness. “What makes the unhappy consciousness unhappy is …Read more