Alfred Schütz was an Austrian social scientist who bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to create social phenomenology. His work supplied philosophical foundations for Max Weber's sociology and for economics. Schütz sought to relate the thought of Edmund Husserl to the social world and the social sciences.
This volume features three essays by Alfred Schutz exploring literature and its relationships. The first discusses ideal life-forms and the author-reader dynamic in literary art. The second examines social personality and reality-spheres. The third translates Goethe manuscripts, presenting Schutz's interpretation and a theory of literature, emphasizing the unique logic of literary reality.
This book presents the remarkable correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, emigre philosophers influenced by Edmund Husserl, who fled Europe on the eve of World War II and ultimately became seminal figures in the establishment of phenomenology in the United States. Their deep and lasting friendship grew out of their mutual concern with the question of the connections between science and the life-world.Interwoven with philosophical exchange is the two scholars' encounter with the unfamiliar problems of American academic life―what Gurwitsch called the "passology" of exile. Apart from its brilliant and moving portrait of two distinguished men, the correspondence holds rich significance for current issues in philosophy and the social sciences.
The problem of social reality