Collected Papers I. The Problem of Social RealityLe present volume rassemble plusieurs etudes qu' Alfred Schutz avait consacrees a diverses questions qui gravitent autour d'un probleme philosophique majeur: celui de la socialite. La plupart de ces etudes ont Me publiees ailleurs, mais elles etaient dispersees et d'un acces parfois difficile. Tel quel, l'ouvrage que nous presentons n' est que la premiere partie d'un ensemble dans lequell'auteur se proposait de faire reunir par son disciple et ami Maurice Natanson les nombreux essais qu'il avait ecrits depuis son arrivee aux Etats-Unis au debut de la demiere guerre. La mort l'empecha de voir realiser ce projet. 11 nous a semble que la pUblication successive de cet ensemble, dans la fidelite aux indications laissees par l'auteur, etait Ie plus bel hommage que nous pussions rendre a ce penseur qui fut notre ami et meritait sans nul doute de tenir dans Ie courant phenomenologique une place de premier plan que faillirent lui refuser les circonstances dramatiques de sa vie, jointes a sa trop grande modestie per sonnelle. II me faudrait ici parler de l'homme, evoquer sa finesse d'esprit, son ironie penetrante, sa serenite et son courage dans l' exil, l' event ail tres vaste de ses preoccupations, Ie don de jeu nesse et de sympathie grftce auquel il entreprit a quarante ans d'assimiler avec bonheur une culture nouvelle, pour y exceller bientOt. |
Contents
Editors Note | xxiii |
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE DISTURBANCES AND THE TEXTURE | xxiv |
COMMONSENSE AND SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN | 3 |
The intersubjective character of commonsense | 10 |
Rational Action within CommonSense Experience | 27 |
Constructs of Thought Objects by the Social | 34 |
Concluding Remarks | 47 |
CHOOSING AMONG PROJECTS OF ACTION | 67 |
ON MULTIPLE REALITIES | 207 |
The Many Realities and their Constitution | 229 |
The World of Dreams | 240 |
OF CONSCIOUSNESS | 260 |
Philosophical Interpretations of Language Distur | 269 |
Relevance and Typification | 283 |
Appresentation as the General Form of Significative | 294 |
Bergsons theory of concurring orders | 300 |
Problematic and Open Possibilities According | 79 |
The Problem of Weight | 93 |
SOME LEADING CONCEPTS OF PHENOMENOLOGY | 99 |
HUSSERLS IMPORTANCE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | 140 |
SCHELERS THEORY OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY | 150 |
Critical Observations | 164 |
The General Thesis of the Alter Ego and its Time | 172 |
SARTRES THEORY OF THE ALTER | 180 |
The World within my Reach and its Dimensions | 306 |
Comprehension manifestation signs communication | 319 |
World within reach and world of everyday life | 326 |
On Multiple Realities | 340 |
Symbol and Society | 347 |
Concluding Remarks | 356 |
Common terms and phrases
activities actor acts actual Alfred Schutz alter ego analysis anticipations appresentational appresented behavior belongs Bergson biographical situation called cognitive common-sense thinking communication concept concrete consociates constitution constructs cultural Edmund Husserl elements epoché everyday existence experience experienced fact fellow-men finite provinces grasp horizon Husserl ideal in-order-to motive individual inner intentional object interpretation intersubjective involved Irish setter knowledge at hand language Leibniz life-world Marvin Farber Max Weber merely natural attitude natural sciences observer origin Other's body outer world particular perceive perception performed Person perspectives phantasying phenomenology philosophy possible presupposes problem provinces of meaning psychology question refers relations relationship Sartre Sartre's Scheler Schutz scientific sense social reality social sciences social scientist social world specious present sphere stock of knowledge stream of consciousness stream of thought structure symbols system of relevances taken for granted theory things thought objects transcendental subjectivity types typical typification understanding vivid present W. I. Thomas