Reflections on the Problem of Relevance

by Alfred Schütz

Alfred Schutz, more than any other phenomenologist, attempted to relate the thought of Edmund Husserl to the social world and the social sciences. His Phenomenology of the Social World supplied philosophical foundations for Max Weber’s sociology and for economics, with which he was familiar through contacts with colleagues of the Austrian school. Schutz fled Hitler’s Anschluss of Austria and immigrated to the United States in 1939

210 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 1970

About the author

Alfred Schütz (13 April 1899 – 20 May 1959) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology. Notably, Schütz is "gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the [twentieth] century". Schütz "attempted to relate the thought of Edmund Husserl to the social world and the social sciences. His Phenomenology of the Social World supplied philosophical foundations for Max Weber's existing sociology and for economics", with which he was familiar