Husserl's phenomenology, particularly in the Cartesian Meditations and Crisis of European Sciences, establishes the life-world as the primary domain of philosophical inquiry.

Our discussion thus far makes manifest Ortega’s ambivalence toward phenomenology. After he learned of Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences, Ortega did not argue that his later general position and that of phenomenology were “diametrically opposed”. Indeed, in a long footnote at the conclusion of Notes on Thinking, Ortega invited a comparison between himself and Husserl. In 1935, Husserl presented a series of four lectures in Prague on “Philosophy in the Crisis of European Mankind”, all of which