Abstract

Marxism and phenomenology show striking parallels in their relation to science. But since there are many phenomenologies and Marxisms, this problem cannot be analyzed in the abstract. Thus, the following analysis will focus on two fundamental works: Lukács' History and Class Consciousness and Husserl's The Crisis of European Science. This selection is not arbitrary. The two books are representative of their respective schools and decisively influenced further developments. Furthermore, both books are products of the decades between the two world wars, and can be considered as typical expressions of the crisis of bourgeois culture.

Philosophy's relation to science is not determined exclusively by its character and development but primarily by the intellectual climate in which it is continually reformulated.