The conference season continues. After Schutzian Copenhagen and Vienna, applied Dublin, and totally Husserlian Warsaw, I remained immersed in Husserl and moved to Darmstadt for a PhD colloquium – a part of the Biannual Conference of the German Society for Phenomenological Research. This year's topic was “Crisis & Critique,” which resonated so perfectly with my project. The aim was the same: to taste different extremes of phenomenology, try to speak different phenomenological languages, and find the most comfortable location within this universe. And to go for a run in one more new city, of course.
In my presentation, I attempted to substantiate a simple yet intriguing ambivalence. Just two key theses and a modest promise. First, Husserl's phenomenology, especially the later one, is all about crises – moreover, all-comprehensive, civilizational crises. Second, it’s surprisingly poor in methodology to address such crises. Third, Husserl, however, gives us some hints to overcome this limitation – and I try to unveil it.
To the point, it is the most literature-based presentation I’ve ever done, and I (unexpectedly) liked the experience. And it was the first standalone introduction of the Total Disruption concept - the second pivotal element of my theoretical framework along with the Stayer.
Maybe it will grow into a full-scale paper, but now I am switching again to sociology and starting preparation for my next talk – at the University of Warsaw.
The presentation transcript is here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17298774.
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