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How is Society Possible?

Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz

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Authors:
  1. Steven Vaitkus

    1. University of Bielefeld, Germany

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Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 118)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 1-7

  3. Mead’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Intersubjectivity as a Problem of the Social Group

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 11-30

    3. Critical Remarks to Mead’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 31-42

  4. Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Intersubjectivity as a Problem of Context and the Milieu-World

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 45-56

    3. Critical Remarks to Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 57-72

  5. Schutz’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Fundamental Levels to the Problem of Intersubjectivity

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 75-91

    3. Towards an Integrated Theory of Intersubjectivity: The Person and the Social Group

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 93-116

    4. Critical Remarks to Schutz’s Theory of Intersubjectivity

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 117-133

  6. Intersubjectivity and the Social Group

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. A General Program for any Future Analysis of the Problem of Intersubjectivity

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 137-160

    3. Reflections on the Problem of Intersubjectivity and the Social Group

      • Steven Vaitkus
      Pages 161-192

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 193-208
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Steven Vaitkus

Bibliographic Information

  • 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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