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Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

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  • © 2011

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  • This text draws together several, formerly scattered key texts of Alfred Schutz, the foremost phenomenologist to bring phenomenology to bear on the social sciences.
  • Contains Schutz' letters, many of them selected and translated for the first time, corresponding with other significant social scientists and philosophers.
  • Reveals new sides of Schutz in the Eliot essay.

Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 205)

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This book shows how phenomenology 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 begins with Schutz's appraisal of how Husserl influenced him, and continues with exchanges between Schutz and Eric Voegelin, Felix Kaufmann, Aron Gurwitsch, and Talcott Parsons. This book presents, for the first time, Schutz's incisive criticisms of T.S. Eliot's theory of culture.

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • , Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Lester Embree

  • Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands

    Alfred Schutz

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