Alfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. A Construction of Alfred Schutz’s “Sociological Aspect of Literature”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Editor’s Introduction

      • Lester Embree

      Pages 3-71

3. Alfred Schutz’s “Sociological Aspect of Literature”: Complementary Essays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. The Construction of Social Reality and the Structure of Literary Work

      • Ilja Srubar

      Pages 75-88

   3. Literature, Music, and the Mutual Tuning-in Relationship

      • Michael McDuffie

      Pages 89-111

   4. Alfred Schutz’s Interpretation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote and his Microsociological View on Literature

      • Martin Endreß

      Pages 113-128

   5. Amplifying the “Sociological Aspect of Literature” with the Concept of Social Relationship

      • Hisashi Nasu

      Pages 129-148

   6. Some Reflections on the Ground for Comparison of Multiple Realities

      • Fred Kersten

      Pages 149-168

   7. Meta-ethical and Liberatory Dimensions of Tragedy: A Schutzean Portrait

      • Lewis R. Gordon

      Pages 169-180

   8. The Ethnographic Text as Literary Form

      • Daniel Cefaï

      Pages 181-196

   9. Dramas, Narratives, and the Postmodern Challenge

      • Stanford M. Lyman

      Pages 197-218

   10. On Multiple Realities and the World of Film

       • George Psathas

       Pages 219-235

   11. Autobiography: Precarious Totality

       • Michael Barber

       Pages 237-260

4. Back Matter

   Pages 261-270

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The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "Sociological Aspect of Literature. " The result can be considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of literature. More detail about how this construction has beenperformed is offered in the Editor's Introduction. The complementary essays areby scholars from Germany, Japan, andthe United States , from several generations, and from the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. These researchers were invited to reflect in their own perspectives on the main text and in relation to matters referred to within and beyond it. Draftversions of most of these complementary essays were presented for critical discussion in a research symposium held at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of theNewSchool for Social Research on April28-29, 1995 underthe sponsorship of The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomen­ ology, Inc. , Florida Atlantic University; The Department of Philosophy of The Graduate Faculty of the New School, Richard 1. Bernstein, Chair; and Evelyn and George Schutz, the philosopher's children. Revised versions of these presentations and also several essays subsequently recruited are offered to begin yet another stagein thehistory of scholarship on Schutz and the phenomenological research inspired by him. Northwestern University Press is thanked for permission to quote extensively from Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, trans.

• English literature
• art
• aspect
• biography
• concept
• construction
• drama
• film
• literature
• lyric
• music
• poetry
• structure
• time
• writing

• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Lester Embree

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