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The Problem of Rationality in the Social World. A Lecture Delivered at the Faculty Club of Harvard University on April 13th, 1940

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Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica ((PHAE,volume 136))

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The title is that of Alfred Schutz for a lecture he gave at the Harvard Faculty Club on the invitation of Joseph Schumpeter and Talcott Parsons. A shorter version of the lecture was published in 1943 by the British journal Economica (New Series, I, 1943, pp. 130-149), and reprinted in Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers, Vol. II, pp. 79–88 under the same title (although misdated as a lecture given in 1942).

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Schutz, A. (1996). The Problem of Rationality in the Social World. A Lecture Delivered at the Faculty Club of Harvard University on April 13th, 1940. In: Collected Papers. Phaenomenologica, vol 136. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1077-0_2

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