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A discussion of Schutz’ phenomenological approach to social theory leads me to some fundamental doubts about his project. Is phenomenology’s central concept, intentionality, conducive to the task of understanding relations among persons? My doubts are expressed through a historical account: I claim the concept of intentionality was devised as a response to questions about the relation between human experience and nature. Applying it to social relations, I argue, may be a case of employing it outside its proper sphere.
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Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, translated by G. Walsh and F. Lehnert (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967), 97. (Hereafter PSR) Collected Papers II: Studies in Social Reality, edited by A. Broderson (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1964), 25. (Hereafter CP II).
See Worldly Phenomenology: The Continuing Influence of Alfred Schutz on North American Human Science, edited by Lester Embree (Washington: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America, 1988).
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, translated by D. Carr (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970), 75–78.
David Carr, Interpreting Husserl (Dordrecht: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1987), 45ff.
Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers III: Studies in Phenomenological Philosophy, edited by I. Schutz (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1967), 82.
PSR, 163.
PSR, 164.
PSR, 163.
PSR, 104.
CP II, 159ff.
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Carr, D. (1994). Alfred Schutz and the Project of Phenomenological Social Theory. In: Daniel, M., Embree, L. (eds) Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28556-6_14
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