Full Description
This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processes. It gathers systematically and intellectual-historically oriented chapters that deal with these macro social phenomena from a phenomenological perspective. This handbook is mainly intended for a threefold audience: sociologists and social scientists at large - both theoretically and empirically oriented -, phenomenological sociologists, and phenomenological philosophers. This book includes chapters by international renowned specialists in social theory, phenomenological sociology, and phenomenology: Hartmut Rosa (University of Jena), Michael Barber (St. Louis University), Thomas Eberle (University of St. Gallen), Roberto Walton (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jochen Dreher (University of Konstanz), Chung-Chi YU (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), and George Bondor (AI.I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), among others.
Contents
Introduction.- Part I General Considerations on Macrophenomenology.- Macro Strata of the Social World: Institutions, Social Classes, and the State.- Macro-social Awareness in Everyday Life: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Society.- Part II Phenomenology and Politics.- Democracy as a Way of Being in the World: Responsivity as the Essence of the Common Good.- Phenomenology of Power: Reflections on Social Construction and Subjective Constitution.- Understanding Opinions: A Phenomenological Analysis.- Part III Phenomenology of Organizations and Institutions.- Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations.- Institutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity.- The Durable Dimensions of Social Institutions: A Generative Phenomenological Approach.- Part IV Phenomenology of Culture.- Cultural Integration: A Macrophenomenological Analysis.- Cultural Objects with or Without Cultural Difference?.- Part V Phenomenology of History.- Husserl's Views on Levels of History with Their Modesof Rationality, Self-Preservation, and Types of Social Organization.- History as Macro-phenomenon: Heidegger and Gadamer.- Dialectics and Contingency: Merleau-Ponty and the Historical Network.- Part VI Collective Personalities and Agency.- Supra-personal Agency: A Husserlian Approach to the Problem of Individual Responsibility in Relation to Collective Agency and Social Normativity.- Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz on Collective Personalities.- The Place of Imagination in the Sociology of Action: An Essay Drawing from Schutz.- Part VII Phenomenology of Digitalization.- The (Dis-)Entanglement of Knowledge and Experience in a Datafied Life-World.- The "Waste Land" of the Digitalized Life-World: Alfred Schutz's Contribution to a Theory of Digitalized Societies.- Part VIII Social Classes and Sociomaterial Structures.- Doing Phenomenology on Social Classes: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and Possibilities.- Depragmatized Knowledge and Sociomaterial Structures: Illustration from Economics as a Province of Special Knowledge.
