This book is comprehensive, tracing Schutz's life in broad overview, then focusing on details of the personal and intellectual relationships that he had with other scholars, and finally exploring the relationship of his work to that of Leibniz, Bergson, and especially Husserl. This comprehensiveness is the strength of the book. Nothing comparable has been provided anywhere else. The most interesting parts of the book, the first on Schutz's life and the last on his uses of Leibniz, Bergson, and Husserl, will be of interest to those who only want a general knowledge of Schutz's work. The middle section, dealing with many predecessors, contemporaries, and successors of Schutz serves as an introduction to the American phenomenological dialogue. Schutz's criticism of objectivist sociology shines through the text.

Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography (Heritage of Sociology)

Wagner, Helmut R.

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Chicago Pr

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A Bergsonian Bridge to Phenomenological Psychology

Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology ; Washington, D.C. : University Press of America

<p>A method of inquiry largely formulated by the German Edmund Husserl and later adapted by Alfred Schutz, phenomenological psychology is explained in this introductory study. It shows how phenomenology can be used in examining the reality of the world of everyday life, and how it provides an antidote to behaviorism, symbolic logic and other positivist systems.</p>

Phenomenology of Consciousness and Sociology of the Life-World

Philosophy

University of Alberta Press

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