Spiegelberg notes that Schutz, by “securing the philosophic foundations of Max Weber’s sociology,” explores “the ‘multiple realities’ or ‘worlds’ in which we find ourselves embedded, from the world of our everyday life to the world of dreams, thus showing how social actors, with their various experiences, “play music together” (Spiegelberg, 1994, pp. The idea of this paper is to explore basic proposals of both thinkers and to shed light on their mutual relationship and their impact on phenomenology and theoretical sociology – an impact that can only become greater in the future. Yet even in this fragment, which touches only slightly upon the kernel of Schutz’s sociophenomenological thinking, we find essential indications concerning the profound affinity of both thinkers, both engaged in a challenging endeavor of laying cornerstones of American phenomenology. What may at first sight strike any reader of Herbert Spiegelberg’s history of phenomenology, known to literally every student versed in the discipline, is a strange paradox: a solemn dedication at the first page of the book to “the memory of Alfred Schutz, one of the brightest hopes for an authentic phenomenology in the United States,” compared with a relatively small fragment of Spiegelberg’s book concerning Schutz’s phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1994, pp. Finally, and deeply connected to these considerations, new conceptual elements are brought forth to think of the problem of social order. In this regard Schutz draws up a solution that brings together both at the life-world level and at the scientific reflection level, the subjective and objective, the aprioristic and the historical aspects of experience in a phenomenologically based continuum. We will argue that Schutz sets off based on the problem objectivism in the production of knowledge and offers an answer geared towards the epistemic claim to the life-world.
In this article we aim to recover the radical character that Schutz granted his project on phenomenological foundation of social science concepts based on a thorough philosophical analysis of the features of the life-world. Although Schutz's links with the Austrian School are well known, specialized literature, has not found in Schutz's work comprehensive solution to the problem that objectivism sets forth regarding the production of knowledge in social sciences.
In the context of the discussions on how hermeneutics can enrich economics, the problem of objectivism in the production of knowledge is emphasized, i.e., the danger of substitution of social reality upheld by social scientists.
The aim of this article is to make a contribution to the reflection on the " interpretive turn " within Austrian economics going back to Alfred Schutz's notion of life-world sketched out in his first book The Phenomenology of the Social World.
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