The Structures of the Life-World. By Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckmann. Translated from the German by Richard M. Zaner and H. Tristram EngelhardtJr., (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1973. Pp. xxxvi, 335. $10.50.)

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 1319-1321
Author(s):  
Hwa Yol Jung
Keyword(s):  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Alfred Schütz

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Common Sense and the Thinking of Alfred Schutz

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquin Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Life World ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Alfred Schütz

This article deconstructs Alfred Schutz’s thinking to its ownmost (Wesen) meaning: the rendition of the phenomenon of common sense. It discerns the exposition of the meaning of common sense as the foundational movement (ἀρχὴ κινήσεως) that runs through the course of Schutz’s constitutive phenomenology of the natural attitude. It predicates this thesis on Schutz’s elucidation of the phenomena of the life-world (Lebenswelt), typification and common sense as a single phenomenon: κοινἠ πρᾶξῐς (common praxis). The analysis includes hermeneutic-phenomenological considerations. It proposes to enhance the interpretability of Schutz’s thinking and its availability to the human sciences.

Prolegomena to a Philosophical Phenomenology of Religion

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tuckett
Keyword(s):  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Life World ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Phenomenology Of Religion ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
Philosophical Phenomenology ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to deal with a slightly erroneous claim made in previous research that philosophical phenomenology has shown little interest in the topic of “religion”. The majority of this article deals with the branch of the Movement that I have dubbed Sociological Phenomenology which stems out of the work of Alfred Schutz and Max Scheler and has influenced scholars of religion like Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann and James Spickard. I offer a Husserlian critique of this branch of phenomenology for failing to appreciate the key insights of his later phenomenology’s “ontological turn” where he turned to an analysis on the natural attitude and the life-world. I conclude by showing what a phenomenology or religion consistent with these later insights may look like.

Um esboço da teoria da comunicação de Alfred Schütz

Phainomenon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
João Carlos Correia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Intellectual Journey

Abstract Throughout about three decades of incessant research, the Austrian phenomenologist Alfred Schutz tried to specify the concept of meaning presented in an insufficient way by Max Weber in his famous definition of subjective action. Quickly, Schutz exceeded the methodological questions related with the foundation of Social Sciences, developing an elaborated reflection on the relations between Communication and Society. Along this text, are presented some particularly significant moments of this intellectual journey, such as the schtuzian reflection on intersubjectivity; the question of communication as condition of possibility of the life-world, and, finally, the analysis of appresentational reference and the set of linguistic artefacts (marks, indications, signs and symbols) that allows man to deal with the experience of transcendence.

Choosing to Wait: Waiting as a Possible Part of Projects of Action

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Karsten Krampe ◽  
Svenja Reinhardt ◽  
Sebastian Weste ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Phenomenological Point ◽  
Do So

In this paper we examine the concept of waiting from a phenomenological point of view. In order to do so, we start with a definition from Andreas Göttlich and contextualize it within the theoretical framework provided by Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann and Peter L. Berger. Additionally, we discuss waiting on the basis of our previous research, specifically within the context of a field extract from an earlier life-world analytical ethnography on the parents of pre-adolescent, non-professional soccer players. The field vignette depicts a mother who has problematic possibilities of conflicting preferences due to the apperception of her soccer playing child, who was injured during the match. This negotiation within projects of action will be outlined as a specific facet of waiting.

scholarly journals Alienation and the Sociology of Alfred Schutz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquin Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Life World ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Alfred Schütz

This article investigates the phenomenon of alienation as its rendition relates to the sociology of Alfred Schutz. Its goal is to augment our understanding of alienation within the context of Schutz and hermeneutic-phenomenology’s interpretation of intersubjectivity. It responds to the question: “If the World is indeed so profoundly intersubjective”, as Schutz’s sociology and hermeneutic-phenomenology suggest, “why does the everyday person dwelling in the life-world of the natural attitude commonly not endure it?” This article begins with a review of Schutz’s apparent neglect to address the phenomenon of alienation then responds to the capital question it poses with a hermeneutic-phenomenological exhibition of the matter that aims to compliment his sociology. Transcendental-horizonal and being-historical expositions of alienation are provided. The article concludes with a return to Schutz’s sociology to determine whether it contains a hidden interpretation of alienation in light of the preceding analysis. The final section also tables considerations for further sociological and phenomenological research of alienation.

scholarly journals Lebenswelt, Leiblichkeit und Resonanz: Eine raumphänomenologisch-rekonstruktive Perspektive auf Geographien der Alltäglichkeit

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Dörfler ◽  
Eberhard Rothfuß
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract. This article aims to explore the potential of Alfred Schütz' sociological phenomenology for spatial phenomena and its integration into human geography. Although the influence and productivity of phenomenology in general could contribute significantly to shed light on spatial phenomena of the life-world, such as a progressive sense of place (Massey, 1993), transnationalities (Pries, 2001), socio-spatial atmospheres (Hasse, 2017), “home” and encounters (Seamon, 1979, 2014), enforced life(s) in refugee camps and others, it has never become a major strand of contemporary (German speaking) human geography. According to Hasse (2017) phenomenology has even remained almost absent in geographical research. In contrast to this proposition, the analytically endorsed and empirically examined theorems of phenomenology have recently been challenged by “post-phenomenology” and “non-representational theory”. These approaches raise – though both argumentatively and empirically unproven – their voice against pretended limitations of “classical” phenomenology in arguing with “imagined” limits of meaning and understanding. Irrespective of these developments, we would like to refer to the analytical and methodological stringency of approaches that arise from the rich tradition of phenomenology and emphasize their still largely untapped potential for human geography by suggesting a “Leib”-based approach rooted in reconstructive methodologies to analyse the various spatial phenomena of the life-world.

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