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Schutz’s concepts of “theory of science” and “the cultural sciences” are clarified.
On the basis of Schutz’s conception [of the common-sense world as social reality] and in continuity with it, a theory of the social sciences could be established. Schutz did not develop such a theory in a fully developed and coherent form, though he has given a great many most valuable hints toward it, which should be gathered and systematized (Aron Gurwitsch, “The Common-Sense World as Social Reality—A Discourse on Alfred Schutz” (1962) (III xxviii)).
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Alfred Schutz Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
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Bettina Bien Greaves, “Interview with Dr. Alfred Schutz,” Schutzian Research, Vol. 3 (2011), p. 23.
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Introduction to Phenomenology (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 94.
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Lester Embree, ed., Alfred Schutz’s “Sociological Aspect of Literature”: Construction and Complementary Essays. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
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See Christine Skarda, “Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology of Music,” in Journal of Musicological Research 3 (1979), pp. 75-132. Reprinted in F. J. Smith (ed), Understanding the Musical Experience, Gordon & Breach, New York (1989).
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Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckman, The Structures of the Life-World, trans. Richard M. Zaner and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., 2 vols. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), Vol. I, pp. xxii and xxiii.
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Note: Unless done otherwise, the following works will be cited with the embedded abbreviations as listed down the left margin below, plus the page number(s).
I = Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers, Vol. I, The Problem of Social Reality, ed. Maurice Natanson (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962).
II = ––––-, Collected Papers, Vol. II, Studies in Social Theory, ed. Arvid Broedresen (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964).
III = ––––-, Collected Papers, Vol. III, Studies in Phenomenological Philosophy, ed. Ilse Schutz (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966).
IV = ––––-, Collected Papers, Vol. IV, ed. Helmut Wagner, George Psathas, and Fred Kersten, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
V = ––––-, Collected Papers, Vol. V, Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, ed. Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011).
VI = ––––, Collected Papers, Vol. VI, Literary Reality and Relationships, ed. Michael Barber (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013).
PSW = ––-, The Phenomenology of the Social World, trans. George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967).
PP = –––––-, “Positivistic Philosophy and the Actual Approach of Interpretive Social Science: An Ineditum from Spring 1953,” Husserl Studies, Vol. 14 (1998): 123–149. Reprinted in Dermot Moran and Lester Embree, eds., Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, 5 vols. London: Routledge, 2004, III, pp. 119–145. Also available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/t52u22v305u28g04/
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Embree, L. (2015). Introduction: Alfred Schutz’s Philosophical Project. In: The Schutzian Theory of the Cultural Sciences. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13653-0_1
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