Ian H. Angus is professor emeritus of humanities at Simon Fraser University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Part One: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Modern ReasonIntroduction: Modern Reason, Crisis, Meaning and ValueChapter 1 – Overview of the CrisisPart Two: Objectivism and the Crisis of ValueChapter 2 – Modern Science and the Problem of ObjectivismChapter 3 – Galilean Science and the One-Dimensional LifeworldChapter 4 – The Institution of Digital CultureChapter 5 – Representation and the Crisis of ValueConcluding Remark to Part TwoPart Three: The Living Body and Ontology of LaborChapter 6 – Science and the LifeworldChapter 7 – Ontology of Labor and the Inception of CultureChapter 8 – The Regime of ValueChapter 9 – Technology in Living Labor Chapter 10 – Nature and the Source of ValueConcluding Remark to Part ThreePart Four: Transcendentality and the Constitution of WorldsChapter 11 – The Paradox of Subjectivity and the Transcendental FieldChapter 12 – Limits of Europe and the Planetary EventChapter 13 - America and P

Angus creates a dialogue between Edmund Husserl and Karl Marx heavily informed by the work of Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School. According to Angus, the "the crisis of European sciences" that concerned Husserl and the alienation of the worker from his labor that animated Marx are rooted in the same stifled and limited view of reason and rationality. This being the case, Husserl's phenomenology can be appealed to by Marxian thinkers, and Marx can add depth and texture to Husserl's more formal philosophizing. The point of this book, however, is not merely to negotiate the relationship between two long-dead philosophers but also to show how this "phenomenological Marxism" can assist in thinking through current debates and crises, most notably climate change and its attendant woes. The book is densely argued and calls for a careful, thorough reading. Readers should be familiar not only with Husserl and Marx but also with Feenberg, Habermas, Heidegger, and Marcuse. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.