Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

• Main Author: Schutz, Alfred (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Embree, Lester (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Phaenomenologica, Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives, 205
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Phenomenology.; Social sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This volume begins with Schutz's sketch of how Husserl influenced him. It shows how phenomenological theory of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It contains excha...