Explorations of the Life-World Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Endress, Martin (Editor), Psathas, George (Editor), Nasu, Hisashi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 53
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Social sciences.; Philosophy, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

This anthology originated from three conferences, which were held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, on March 26-28, 1999, at the Univ- sity of Konstanz, Germany, on May 26-29, 1999 and a session at the SPHS annual meeting at the University of Oregon, USA, on October 5-7, 1999. With one exception t...

Table of Contents:

• Theory of the Life-World and Contemporary Social Theory
• The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons
• Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology
• Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research
• On Methodology and Theory of Social Science
• The Appeal of Alfred Schutz in Disciplines beyond Philosophy, e.g. Jurisprudence
• The “Naturality” of Alfred Schutz’s Natural Attitude of the Life-World
• Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory—Towards an “Adequate” Social Thory
• The Ideal Type in Weber and Schutz
• The Political and Socio-Cultural Dimension of the Life-World
• If only to be heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz’s Economic and Political Writings
• In Search of a Political Sphere in Alfred Schutz
• The Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World as a Basis for Intercultural Comparisons
• Schutz on Transcendence and the Variety of Life-World Experience.