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This issue of Human Studies is dedicated to Alfred Schutz on the twen- ty-fifth anniversary of his death. It also is meant as a fond and admiring salute to one of Schutz's most outstanding students and his intellectual biographer, Helmut R. Wagner, on the occasion ofhis eightieth birthday. The first paper, by Wagner himself, is the first of three that were presented at the session in honor of Alfred Schutz, which was chaired by George Psathas, at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society on March 9, 1984 in Boston. It is based on Wagner's intel- lectual biography of Schutz, reviewed in this issue by David M. Ras- mussen, and shows how Wagner found the main conceptual tools of this biography in Schutz's own theoretical work. The second paper, by Jonathan B. Imber, presents a fresh and far-reaching interpretation of Schutz's ""The Well-Informed Citizen,"" and the third, by David M. Rasmussen, compares Schutz with Habermas, especially Habermas's most recent major work, Theory of Communicative Action. The dis- cussion of these three papers by the present author tries to show that they all touch, despite differences in focus and perspec,tive, on a prob- lem in Schutz's conception of phenomenology and social science. In Ingeborg Katharina Helling's essay, the relationship between Al- fred Schutz and Felix Kaufmann, and thus the interplay between phenomenology and the positivism of the Vienna Circle, is analyzed.

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Author:   K.H. Wolff
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.530kg
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9789024731145

ISBN 10:   9024731143
Pages:   151
Publication Date:   31 December 1984
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Table of Contents

Schutz’s Life Story and the Understanding of his Work.- The Well-informed Citizen: Alfred Schutz and Applied Theory.- Explorations of the Lebenswelt: Reflections on Schutz and Habermas.- Discussion of Wagner, Imber, and Rasmussen.- A. Schutz and F. Kaufmann: Sociology Between Science and Interpretation.- On the Origin of ‘Phenomenological’ Sociology.- Surrender-and-Catch and Phenomenology.- On Surrender, Death, and the Sociology of Knowledge.- The Provisional Homecomer.- Review Section.- Helmut R. Wagner. Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography.- Burke C. Thomason. Making Sense of Reification: Alfred Schutz and Constructionist Theory.- Helmut R. Wagner. Phenomenology of Consciousness and Sociology of the Life-world: An Introductory Study.

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