 Therefore, Husserl’s later works, particularly Cartesian Meditations and the Crisis, which were attempts to resolve the difficulties inherent in transcendental phenomenology and representative of his phenomenological philosophy, were not diametrically opposed to the themes of human life. Nor did they neglect the importance of postulating the epistemological and ontological functions of the experience of human life. The orientation of these later writings has contributed to the theory that Husserl perceived the Crisis as the “definitive” introduction to phenomenology.