Explorations of the life-world : continuing dialogues with Alfred Schutz / edited by Martin Endress, George Psathas, and Hisashi Nasu.

Contains revised versions of papers presented at three conferences, held Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1999 ; University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1999, and a session of the SPHS meeting at the University of Oregon, October 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Martin Endress -- The problem of subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons / Thomas P. Wilson -- Reflexivity, reality, and relationality : the inadequacy of Bourdieu's critique of the phenomenological tradition in sociology / Martin Endress -- The appeal of Alfred Schutz in disciplines beyong philosophy, e.g. jurisprudence / Lester Embree -- The "naturality" of Alfred Schutz's natural attitude of the life-world / Steven Vaikus -- Between the everyday life-world and the world of social scientific theory : towards an "adequate" social theory / Hisahi Nasu -- The ideal type in Weber and Schutz / George Psathas -- If only to be heard : value-freedom and ethics in Alfred Schutz's economic and political writings / Michael Barber -- In search of a political sphere in Alfred Schutz / Hongwoo Kim -- The pragmatic theory of the life-world as a basis for intercultural comparison / Ilja Srubar -- Schutz on transcendence and the variety of life-world experience / Chung-Chi Yu.

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