How is society possible? In Die Krisis der europiiischen Wissenschaflen und die transzendentale Phiinomenoiogie, I Edmund Husserl is found with a pathos send ing out pleas for belief ("Glauben") in his transcendental philosophy and tran scendental ego. The traditional idea of theoretical reflection instituted in ancient Greece as the suspension of all taken for granted worldly interests has, through a partial realization of itself, forsaken itself in the one-sided development of the objective mathematical-natural sciences as they themselves have become so taken for granted, with the method and validity of their results held as so self-evident, that they appear as resting self-sufficiently on their own grounds, while pursuing an increasingly abstract mathematization of nature. The sciences are left without a foundation and their meaning within the world consequently unintelligible, while their objective and valid abstract concepts continually tend to supercede the everyday life-world and render it questionable. In the end, these of belief in the everyday life-world or reflective evolving and exchanging attitudes doubt (science) ultimately leads to a disbelief in both, and a search in one direction for idol leaders and in the other for the cult of experience. This collapse of Western belief systems becomes particularly threatening as it turns into nihilism which is the development of beliefs in societal forms which employ 2 natural and social science for the liquidation of humanity and nature. Society starts becoming impossible.

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Steven Vaitkus

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Book Title: How is Society Possible?
Book Subtitle: Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz
Authors: Steven Vaitkus
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2077-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0820-1Published: 30 November 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7432-2Published: 01 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2077-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 208
Topics: Phenomenology, Sociology, general

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Introduction

Mead’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

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Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

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Schutz’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

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Intersubjectivity and the Social Group

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