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In its first part this introductory essay provides a sketch of the relationship between phenomenology and hermeneutics in Alfred Schutz’s thought. The author holds that hermeneutics is not an incidental addition to Schutz’s phenomenology of the social world but rather a constitutive part of it. Moreover, he argues that this productive intertwining of phenomenology and hermeneutics paves the path for applied phenomenological analyses concerning the social world, its meaningful constitution, and its limits. The second part of this essay offers an overview of the contributions to this volume which address this productive intertwining in a variety of contexts.
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For Husserl, at least since the Crisis, the process of constitution escapes the confines of subjective “sense-bestowal” as delineated in his ‘Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology’ and the ‘transcendental turn’ they promoted. In his later genetic perspective, he rather considers constitution as an interdependent and dynamic process of active sense-bestowal (Sinngebung), passive sense-formation (Sinnbildung) and the symbolic institution of sense (Sinnstiftung). Whereas sense-bestowing acts refer to the subjective registry of experience, symbolic institutions relate to the level of intersubjectivity, while the passive processes of sense-formation unfold in the back of our consciousness, i.e. in embodiment and expression.
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Staudigl, M. (2014). Reflections on the Relationship of “Social Phenomenology” and Hermeneutics in Alfred Schutz. An Introduction. In: Staudigl, M., Berguno, G. (eds) Schutzian Phenomenology and Hermeneutic Traditions. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6034-9_1
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