Explorations of the Life-World

1. Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research
Martin Endress

Part I. Theory of the Life-World and Contemporary Social Theory

2. The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons
Thomas P. Wilson

3. Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology
Martin Endress

Part II. On Methodology and Theory of Social Science

4. The Appeal of Alfred Schutz in Disciplines beyond Philosophy, e.g. Jurisprudence
Lester Embree

5. The “Naturality” of Alfred Schutz’s Natural Attitude of the Life-World
Steven Vaitkus

6. Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory—Towards an “Adequate” Social Thory
Hisashi Nasu

7. The Ideal Type in Weber and Schutz
George Psathas

Part III. The Political and Socio-Cultural Dimension of the Life-World

8. If only to be heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz’s Economic and Political Writings
Michael D. Barber

9. In Search of a Political Sphere in Alfred Schutz
Hongwoo Kim

10. The Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World as a Basis for Intercultural Comparisons
Ilja Srubar

11. Schutz on Transcendence and the Variety of Life-World Experience
Chung-Chi Yu

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