A Scholar of Multiple Involvements: Felix Kaufmann

Abstract

The title is by Helmut Wagner for a memorial address given by Schutz to the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research on 4 January, 1950. Schutz’s title was “In Memory of Felix Kaufmann”, and the manuscript is dated at the bottom of the title page, December 31, 1949. A shorter version of Schutz’s address was published in Social Research, Vol. 17, 1950, pp. 1–7 with the title, “Felix Kaufmann: 1895–1949”. Another editing of the longer version is to be found in Harry P. Reeder, The Work of Felix Kaufmann (Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America, 1991), pp. vii–xiv.¹ In the main, Wagner’s editing has been followed here for the sake of consistency with the rest of his editing of Schutz’s manuscripts.