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The title is that given by Alfred Schutz to a memorandum he wrote at the request of the administration of the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science of the New School for Social Research after its Department of Philosophy had lost its strength through the departure, retirement or death of its original faculty. In the memorandum Schutz offers his ideas about the general principles of the New School’s graduate school and reformulates their consequences along with the obligations of the faculty for the implementation of its curriculum given budgetary and personnel conditions then existing at the Graduate Faculty. The memorandum provides an especially clear picture of how Schutz thought of the new academic setting in which he found himself and how he proposed to realize his ideas in that new setting tailored to the unusual student body of the time (and of which he gives a very accurate picture).
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The phrase, twice referred to by Schutz, is the title of Kurt Riezler’s last book, Man, Mutable and Immutable (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1950; reprint by Greenwood Press, 1975). This no doubt also explains Schutz’ emphasis on “philosophical anthropology” later on as the core of the discipline of philosophy relative to the integration of the social sciences. Kurt Riezler (1882–1955) had been Dean and Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty. For more on Riezler, see the Introduction by Richard Grathoff to Philosophers in Exile. The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch 1939–1959,translated by J. Claude Evans, Foreword by Maurice Natanson (Indiana University Press, 1989), p. xxiv, note 24. (FK)
Alvin Johnson, Pioneer’s Progress (New York, 1952), p. 347. For Alvin Johnson and the context of the passage cited, see Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise. German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930’s to the Present (New York: Viking Press, 1983), Chapter 4, especially pp. 80ff. (FK)
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Schutz, A. (1996). The Scope and Function of the Department of Philosophy within the Graduate Faculty. In: Collected Papers. Phaenomenologica, vol 136. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1077-0_13
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