Frédéric Moinat

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According to Husserl, the process of idealization plays a key role in the distinction between human sciences and nature sciences. Yet if we consider Max Weber’s ideal typical concepts in history and sociology, it appears that they are logically very close to the husserlian ideal essences produced by the process of idealization. This leads us to consider this problem of the distinction between these two methodologies anew in Husserl’s work. Finally, it allows a fruitful discussion of a ‚crisis‘ of human sciences which is in many ways similar to the one Husserl diagnosed in nature sciences.