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An unsigned booknote in an issue of the American Sociological Review, discussing phenomenological literature, regrets that these writings are almost inaccessible even to many philosophers, to say nothing of social scientists. “We must apparently wait for popularized interpretations before much can be said about the relations of phenomenology and the social sciences.”1
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American Sociological Review, IX, 1944, p. 344.
Marvin Farber’s paper, “Phenomenology,” in Twentieth Century Philosophy (ed. by Dagobert D. Runes), New York, 1943, and the same author’s excellent book, The Foundation of Phenomenology, Cambridge, Mass., 1943, are to be regarded as the best introductions, and should be carefully studied before the reader turns to Husserl’s own writings.
Husserl defined “acts” not as psychical activities, but as intentional experiences; see Farber, The Foundation of Phenomenology (cited above) pp. 343ff.
Husserl’s term “genesis” refers to the process by which knowledge arises in its “origin-form” of self-givenness, and has nothing to do with the factual process of meanings arising out of a definite historical subjectivity; see ibid., p. 167.
Students of William James’ psychology will not err if they bring these notions into correlation with James’ “thinking” and the “object thought of,” provided they keep in mind the fact that James’ psychological analysis refers exclusively to the mundane sphere, whereas Husserl operates within the phenomenologically reduced sphere; see Schutz, Alfred, “William James’ Concept of the Stream of Thought Phenomenologically Interpreted,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, I, 1941, pp. 442–52.
See his article “Phenomenology,” in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed., 1927.
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Schutz, A. (1966). Some Leading Concepts of Phenomenology. In: Natanson, M. (eds) Essays in Phenomenology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3427-7_2
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