On Phenomenology and Social Relations: Selected Writings

by Alfred Schütz

Book Overview

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. Schutz's basic contributions issue from a critical synthesis of Husserl's phenomenology and Weber's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226741524
• ISBN13: 9780226741529
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.