Schutz's Bergsonian analysis of the structure of consciousness

✍ Scribed by Lenore Langsdorf

• Book ID: 104640335
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 712 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0163-8548
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00143587

✦ Synopsis

Alfred Schutz returned to Vienna in 1918 to study law and economics, and thus prepare himself for the banking career in which he was to make his livelihood during most of his life. At the same time, however (as he noted years later):

I was under the spell of Max Weber's work, especially his methodological writings. I recognized, however, very soon that Max Weber had forged the tools he needed for his concrete research but that his main problem, understanding the subjective meaning a social act has for the actor, needed further philosophical foundation (Schutz, 1977:41-42).