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...

Der Band dokumentiert das breite Spektrum der phanomenologischen Forschung in der gegenwartigen soziologischen Landschaft. Er prasentiert die Weiterentwicklung des phanomenologischen Ansatzes in den Bereichen der Theorie, der Methoden sowie der empirischen Untersuchungen.