ABSTRACT
The complexity and immensity of the current crisis makes it difficult to reflect upon it from a purely philosophical standpoint. The very nature of the object of discussion and reflection seems to call for a multidisciplinary effort, involving economics, sociology, psychology, and environmental sciences. At the beginning of the 1930s, a large part of the Western world was still struggling to emerge from the disastrous economic breakdown that history calls the Great Depression. More than ten years after writing his articles concerning the political and economic crisis and his reflections on the lost individual, Dewey tackled these issues together in the above-mentioned essay, The Crisis in Human History. According to Husserl, European spiritual form, which he identified with the essence of all humanity, consisted of an imminent teleology, revealing itself through the rise of a new humanity, in which men decided to live according to the sole authority of reason.
