What was the purpose of Edmund Husserl’s 1935 lectures in Vienna and Prague?

In 1935, Edmund Husserl delivered lectures in Vienna and Prague titled "Philosophy in the Crisis of European Mankind". Following his exclusion from university life in Germany due to the rise of the Nazi regime, these lectures served as a vital platform for the expression of free philosophy in a time of political upheaval.1

The purpose of these lectures was to address the cultural and philosophical crisis in Europe, which Husserl identified as a conflict between the successes of the natural sciences and the failure of the human sciences. By questioning the foundations that sciences presuppose, Husserl sought to overcome the split between physicalist objectivism and transcendental subjectivism. These lectures provided the foundation for his final work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, in which he introduced the concept of the life-world—the world as shaped by immediate human experience—to help humanity reclaim its capacity to live according to the demands of reason.21