Life-World, Intersubjectivity and Culture: Contemporary Dilemmas

ISBN-13: 9783631656570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 275 str.

Elzbieta Halas

Opis

This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff s (1934 2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations."

Spis treści

Contents: Zdzislaw Krasnodebski: Grathoff's Life-World - Thomas S. Eberle: Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Interpretive Sociology: Finding a Pathway Through Divergent Strands - Tadeusz Szawiel: Life-World as an Object of Theory and as a Life-Horizon - Ingeborg K. Helling: «Mirror Neurons»: A Material Base for Phenomenological Reflection on Intersubjectivity? A Review Essay - Gallina Tasheva: Social Inconsistencies as a Problem of Social Knowledge - Steven Vaitkus: The Depth Juncture of Symbolic Transcendence Arising from Alfred Schutz and Karl Jaspers, and the Path Towards a Humanistic Self-Education - Fritz Schütze: Artificial Classifications in State Socialism vs. Typification Processes in the Existential World of Everyday Life as Envisioned by Richard Grathoff - Elzbieta Halas: Symbolic Transformations: State Symbolism and the Fall of Communism in Poland - Dennis Smith: Coping with Captivity: The Social Phenomenon of Humiliation Explored Through Prisoners' Dilemmas - Lorenza Gattamorta: Hans Joas and Peter L. Berger: Self-Transcendence in the Age of Contingency - Hubert Knoblauch: Communicative Constructivism and the Communication Society - Marek Czyzewski: «Under What Circumstances Do We Think Things Real?» Don Quixote, Social Theory and the Case of Knowledge-Based Society - Ulf Matthiesen: A Phenomenologist Goes to Town! «Spatial Turn,» «Urban Terroir» and the Life-World/Milieu-Paradigm: Strengthening Recent Phenomenological Approaches in City Research - Ewa Nowicka: Opportunities and Limitations of Intercultural Communication: Doing Social Anthropology in the Field - Rafal P. Wierzchoslawski: Florian Znaniecki, Alfred Schutz, Milieu Analysis and Experts Studies.

O autorze

Elzbieta Halas, the editor of the volume, is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests are cultural sociology, social symbolism, and interpretative social theory.