Schutzian Phenomenology and Hermeneutic Traditions

1. Reflections on the Relationship of “Social Phenomenology” and Hermeneutics in Alfred Schutz. An Introduction
Michael Staudigl

Part I. Schutzian Phenomenology and Hermeneutic Traditions

2. Methodological Implications of Phenomenological Life-World Analysis
Thomas S. Eberle

3. Interpretive Sociologies and Traditions of Hermeneutics
Martin Endress

4. Alfred Schutz and a Hermeneutical Sociology of Knowledge
Hisashi Nasu

5. The Interpretationism of Alfred Schutz or How Woodcutting Can Have Referential and Non-referential Meaning
Lester Embree

Part II. Theoretical and Conceptual Reassessments

6. Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World and Hermeneutics of the Social Sciences
Ilja Srubar

7. Media Structures of the Life-World
Ruth Ayaß

8. The Musical Foundations of Alfred Schutz’s Hermeneutics of the Social World
Andreas Georg Stascheit

Part III. Explorations of the Practical World

9. Scientific Practice and the World of Working. Beyond Schutz’s Wirkwelt

Daniel Bischur

10. Hermeneutics of Transcendence. Understanding and Communication at the Limits of Experience
Annette Hilt

11. Alfred Schutz’s Practical-Hermeneutical Approach to Law and Normativity
Ion Copoeru

12. Everyday Morality. Questions with and for Alfred Schutz
Bernhard Waldenfels

Part IV. Investigations into Multiple Realities

13. Goffman and Schutz on Multiple Realities
George Psathas

14. Literature and the Limits of Pragmatism. Alfred Schutz’s Goethe Manuscripts
Michael D. Barber

15. Life-World Analysis and Literary Interpretation. On the Reconstruction of Symbolic Reality Spheres
Jochen Dreher

16. Image Worlds Aesthetic Experience and the Problem of Hermeneutics in the Social Sciences
Dirk Tänzler

Keywords: Philosophy, Phenomenology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general