Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutzs theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It begins with Schutzs appraisal of how Husserl influenced him, and continues with exchanges between Schutz and Eric Voegelin, Felix Kaufmann, Aron Gurwitsch, and Talcott Parsons. This book presents, for the first time, Schutzs incisive criticisms of T.S. Eliots theory of culture.