ABSTRACT
The theme of crisis has recurred throughout our discussion so far, but we need to look in more detail at its significance for the philosophies of Marx and Husserl. Reacting to the dominant positivism of his period, Husserl saw philosophy in a state of crisis because of its post-Humean enslavement to science. Likewise, Marx’s conception of crisis extended to both science and philosophy which he regarded as branches of bourgeois academicism. Yet, for Marx, the state of both was indicative of a wider crisis embracing the whole social structure. This crisis could be understood and resolved only by a new revolutionary science.
