[xmca] Alfred Schuetz

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I'd just like to share the attached article, written in 1945 by Alfred 
Schuetz, a refugee from the Frankfurt School living in New York, like so 
many others. In the article he appropriates Wm James, GH Mead and J 
Dewey, whilst coming from the Pheneomenology of Husserl, to adapt the 
concepts of Pheneomenology to social theory. It is quite interesting. He 
remains, in my view within the orbit of Phenomenology, but readers will 
recognise significant points of agreement with AN Leontyev's Activity 
Theory. What he calls "Conduct" comes close to "Activity," and he 
introduces the concept of Action which is certainly the same as it is 
for CHAT, and instead of "an activity" (the 3rd level in ANL's system) 
he has "Project." But although this project has the same relation to 
Action, it is a subjectively derived project posited on the world, 
rather than project discovered in the world, and having a basically 
societal origin. This is the point at which I think he confines himself 
to Phenomenology, and fails to reach a real social theory. The whole 
business about "multiple realities" which gives the article its title is 
very tedious, but actually is valid in its basics I think.
Some of us on this list may appreciate him. He's a recent discovery for me.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1
Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608461459/

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