Chapter 1 Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research

Chapter 2 The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons

Chapter 3 Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology

Chapter 4 The Appeal of Alfred Schutz in Disciplines beyond Philosophy, e.g. Jurisprudence

Chapter 5 The “Naturality” of Alfred Schutz’s Natural Attitude of the Life-World

Chapter 6 Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory—Towards an “Adequate” Social Thory

Chapter 7 The Ideal Type in Weber and Schutz

Chapter 8 If only to be heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz’s Economic and Political Writings

Chapter 9 In Search of a Political Sphere in Alfred Schutz

Chapter 10 The Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World as a Basis for Intercultural Comparisons