Anthem Companion to Alfred Schutz

Michael Barber is a professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, author of 7 books and over 100 articles and editor of 16 books.

• Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; PART ONE SCHUTZ ON EVERYDAY LIFE, One: Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Relevance,  Andreas Göttlich; Two: Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Sign and Symbol,  Jochen Dreher; Three: Copresence as an Essential Site for the Transmission of Embodied Knowledge: From a Case of the Practice of Japanese Utai of Noh Theater,  Chihaya Kusayanagi; Four: Reading Alfred Schutz’s “The Stranger” Essay, Hisashi Nasu; Five: Alfred Schutz and the Second-Person Experience, Michael Barber; PART TWO SCHUTZ ON SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY, Six: A Phenomenology of Modernity? Alfred Schutz’s Contributions to a Theory of Modern Society,  Alexis Gros; Seven: Durkheimian Aspects of Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology,  Carlos Belvedere; Eight: The Problem of Opacity in Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology,  Daniela López; Nine: Schutz’s Sociology of Knowledge,  Ilja Srubar; Ten: Scientific Modeling: Considering a Schutzian Informed Quantitative Sociology,  Jerry Williams; Notes on Contributors; Index.

The Anthem Companions to Sociology offers wide ranging and masterly overviews of the works of major sociologists. The volumes in the series provide authoritative and critical appraisals of key figures in modern social thought. These books, written and edited by leading figures, are essential additional reading on the history of sociology. – Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton