On Phenomenology and Social Relations (Heritage of Sociology Series)

On Phenomenology and Social Relations (Heritage of Sociology Series) by Schutz, Alfred. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226741536.

Alfred Schutz (1899-1959) stood simultaneously in the camps of philosophy and sociology, and his writings constitute the framework of a sociology based on phenomenological considerations. Schutzs basic contributions issue from a critical synthesis of Husserls phenomenology and Webers sociology of understanding. He proceeds on the basis of the irreducible souce of all human knowledge in the immediate experiences of the conscious, alert, and active individual. In this volume Helmut Wagner has selected and skillfully correlated various passages both from Schutzs book The Phenomenology of the Social World and from his scattered papers and essays.