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Alfred Schutz in Vienna

   Idea of the Liberalistic Transformation of the Social Sciences and its times

Prof. Dr. Mototaka M O R I(Waseda University, Tokyo)


Introduction

Part One: Controversies on Ideologies

Chapter 1. Schutz and Imperial Capital Vienna

1. His Youth
2. War and Homcomer
3. University of Vienna
Table1 & Table6
4. Interwar Period

Chapter2. Problems on the Newborn Republic
1. Actuality of Socialism -Otto Bauer’s Program
2. Socialistic Economy and Freedom
 -Ludwig v. Mises´s Critical Comments
3. Nation and Democracy
 -Hans Kelsen’s Critical Comments
4. Idea of the Holy Nation
 -Othmar Spann’s Socila Philosophy

Chapter 3. Sociologicak Discussion on Politics
1. German Sociologists Meeting in Vienna
A. Disputes on Democracy
 a)Representation and Fiction
 b)Decipline of Decision by Majority
 c)Kelsen and his Report
B. Disputes on Methodology
 a)Spann’s critical Comment on Causality
 b)Causality and the Object of Sociology
2. Mises and his Followers
 a)Mises and the Research Institute of Business Cycle
 b)Mises and his Private Seminar

Chapter 4. Therapeutic Nihilism
1. Inner Emigration
 a)Kelsen’s Case
 b)Mises’s Case
2. End of the First Republic
 a)Austria and Germany
 b)Exodus of Schutz’s Family


Part Two
Mainstream of the Sociological Thought in the 1920’s in Vienna
-New-Kantian Marxism and its Idea of Social World

Chapter5. Dead End of the Epistemological Social Theory

1. Genesis of the New-Kantian Marxism
 a)Marx-Studies
 b)Causality and Teleology
 c)Position of the Anti-Materialismu
2. Practice of the Social Democracy
 a)Problem of Dictatorship
 b)Controvercies on Democracy
 c)Idea of the New Human
3. Social-Apriori and Interpretation
 a)Max Adler and Max Weber
 b)Radicalization from the Epistemology to the Understanding
 c)Critique of the Theory of Community


Part Three
Transformation of the Theory of Social World
-Theory of the Meaningful Structure of Social Worlds

Chapter 6. Four Manuscripts in the 1920’s

1. Idea of the Anti-Epistemology
2.Structure und Logics of the Manuscripts "Life-form and Structure of Meaning"
 a)Symbolization and Symbol
 b)Functional Constellation of Body
 c)Body-Moving and Action
3. Structure and Logics of the Manuscript "Living Experience, Language, Concept�
4. Two Manuscripts about Arts

Chapter 7. Max Weber and his Influence
1. Mises und verstehende Soziologie
 a)Weber’s Theory of Ideal Type
 b)Mises´s Critics
2. Kelsen and the interpretive Sociology
 A. Kelsen and Weber
 a)Purpose-Rationonal Interpretation by Weber
 b)Kelsen’s Interpretaion
 B. Kelsen’s Followers and Weber
 a)Kaufmann’s Case
 b)Voegelin’s Case
 c)Otaka’s Case

Chapter 8. Main Work The meaningful Structure of Social Worldt

1. Fundamental Problems and their inner Constellation
 a)Weber’s Interpretation and his Problems
 b)Schutz’s Concepts and Husserl’s Influence
2. Development of the Structural Theory of Social World
 A. Act and Freedom
 B. Other-Understanding and Freedom
 C. Anonymity and Types of the Social Worlds
 a)Perspective and Influence of Other
 b)Face-to-Face and Contemporaries
 c)Worlds of Ancestors and Descendents
3.Interpretive Sociology and the Advanced Social Sciences
 A. Thema of the interpretive Sociology
 a)Social World and Science
 b)Priority of the Type of Rational Action
 B. Typology of the Ideal Type
 a)Personal and Material Ideal Types
 b)Character, Custom, social Collective
 C. Advanced Social Sciences and the Ideal Type


Part Four: Liberalism as Metaphor
Chapter 9. Between Social Science and Idealistic Philosophy

1. Schutz’s Influence upon the Liberalistic Reconstruction of the Social Science
 a)Kaufmann’s Methodology of Social Sciences
 b)Mises´s National Economics
 c)Reception in London
2. Schutz’s Interpretation of the transcendental Phenomenology
 a)Recension: Husserl’s Médetations Cartésiennes
 b)Husserl’s Krisis-Lecture und -Thesis
3. Manuscript "Problems on Personality in the Social World�
 A. Structure of the Manuscripts
 B. Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Manuscripts
 a)Unity of ‘I�
 b)Time-Structure of ‘I� and the Anthropological Orientation
 c)Concept of Work and the Structure of Social Worlds
 C. Posibility of the More Development
 D. Schutz’s Concept of Practice

Chapter 10. Beginning and Closeing in the New World
1. Encounter with the American German Historism
 A. Parsons The Structure of Social Action
 a) Voluntaristic Theory of Action
  b)Idea of the Anglo-American Economics
 c)Weber-Reception
 d)Systematic Generalization and its Importance
 B. Schutz’s Critical Comments
 a)Correspondence between Schutz and Parsons
 b)Schutz’s Critique
 c)Action and Science
 d)Normative Value and Motivation of Actions
 e)Fundamental Problems of the Social Sciences
2. Orientation to the Phenomenologicak Sociology
 A. Phenomenology and philosophical Practice
 a) Discussion with Gurwitsch
 b) Discussion with Voegelin
 B. Greenwich Village
 a)New School for Social Research
 b)Prototype of Sociological Practice