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Four previously unpublished texts authored or co-authored by Alfred Schutz are edited and introduced with an explication of contexts and significance that also incorporates thirty-three unpublished interventions by him during the general discussions at a 1956 ethics institute. A summary sketch of his ethical-political position there is then ventured.
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Aron Gurwitsch and Alfred Schutz, Philosophers in Exile: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, 1939–1959, ed. Richard Grathoff, trans. J. Claude Evans, Foreword by Maurice Natanson ( Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989 ), p. 255.
Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers,Vol. IV, eds. Helmut Wagner, George Psathas, and Fred Kersten (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), pp. 147–151; hereafter this volume will be cited as “IV.”
Alfred Schutz, “The Homecomer” (1945), reprinted in Collected Papers,Vol. II, ed. Arvid Brodersen. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964, 1 18. Hereafter this volume will be cited as “Il.”
Alfred Schutz, “The Well-Informed Citizen” (1946), reprinted in II 129. Hereafter this essay will be referred to in brief as “Citizen.”
Most of the same points—and no new ones—are also made by Schutz in an intervention during the last general session that therefore does not need to be quoted.
II 226–273. Hereafter this essay will be referred to in brief as “Equality.”
Cf. Lester Embree, “Alfred Schutz on Reducing Social Tensions,” in Kevin Thompson and Lester Embree, eds., The Phenomenology of the Political. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming.
Horace Kallen, Culture and Democracy in the United States. New York: Boni and Liverwright, 1924.
One contribution to the secondary literature must especially be commended: Jonathan B. Imber, “The Well-Informed Citizen: Alfred Schutz and Applied Theory,” Human Studies 7 (1984): 117–126.
II 122. Cf. Alfred Schutz, “The Problem of the Rationality of the Social World” (1942), also reprinted in II.
II 266, quoting Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma, New York, 1944, p. 43.
IV 239. Cf. Alfred Schutz, “Some Structures of the Lifeworld” (1958) in Collected Papers, Vol. III, ed. Ilse Schutz. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966, 120.
This last point seems odd to the present writer for whom it is clear that the United States is not strictly a democracy in which one directly votes for platforms and might yearn to vote on separate planks, but rather a republic in which discussions of platforms by candidates in parties are merely means by which voters decide whom to elect to decide policy for them. Text III suggests that Schutz came to understand this.
Alfred Schutz, “Sartre’s Theory of the Alter Ego” (1948), reprinted in Collected Papers, Vol. I, ed. Maurice Natanson. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962, 201.
Alfred Schutz, The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons, ed. Richard Grathoff. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978, 33–34.
lfred Schutz, “Choosing among Projects of Action” (1951), I 94, cf. Alfred Schutz, 2hoice and the Social Sciences (1951),“ in Life-World and Consciousness, ed. Lester Embree. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972.
Alfred Schutz, “The Scope and Function of the Department of Philosophy within the Graduate Faculty” (1953), IV 113.
The Career Open to Personality: The Meaning of Equality of Opportunity for an Ethics of Our Time,“ Apects of Human Equality, eds. Lyman Bryson, Clarence H. Faust, Louis Finkelstein, and R.M. Maclver. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956.
Editor’s Note: On internal grounds, this text was composed after the June 1956 institute began. It was typed up and circulated to the other Senior Fellows. For other considerations of context and significance, see the Introduction above.
Editor’s Note: For the context and significance of this text, see above, pp. 259ff.
Editor’s Note: For the context and significance of this text, see the above Introduction, especially pp. 279f.
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Embree, L. (1999). The Ethical-Political Side of Schutz: His Contributions at the 1956 Institute on Ethics concerned with Barriers to Equality of Opportunity. In: Embree, L. (eds) Schutzian Social Science. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2944-4_12
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