Alfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature: Construction and Complementary Essays

by Lester Embree (Editor)

Overview

The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "Sociological Aspect of Literature. " The result can be considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of literature. More detail about how this construction has beenperformed is offered in the Editor's Introduction. The complementary essays areby scholars from Germany, Japan, andthe United States , from several generations, and from the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. These researchers were invited to reflect in their own perspectives on the main text and in relation to matters referred to within and beyond it. Draftversions of most of these complementary essays were presented for critical discussion in a research symposium held at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of theNewSchool for Social Research on April28-29, 1995 underthe sponsorship of The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomen­ ology, Inc. , Florida Atlantic University; The Department of Philosophy of The Graduate Faculty of the New School, Richard 1. Bernstein, Chair; and Evelyn and George Schutz, the philosopher's children. Revised versions of these presentations and also several essays subsequently recruited are offered to begin yet another stagein thehistory of scholarship on Schutz and the phenomenological research inspired by him. Northwestern University Press is thanked for permission to quote extensively from Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, trans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792348474
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	Contributions to Phenomenology , #31
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I. A Construction of Alfred Schutz’s “Sociological Aspect of Literature”.- II. Complementary Essays.- 1. The Construction ofSocial Reality and the Structure of Literary Work.- 2. Literature, Music, and the Mutual Tuning-in Relationship.- 3. Alfred Schutz’s Interpretation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote and his Microsociological View ofLiterature.- 4. Amplifying the ‘Sociological Aspect of Literature ‘ with the Concept of Social Relationship.- 5. Some Reflections on the Ground for Comparison of Multiple Realities.- 6. Meta-ethical and Liberatory Dimensions of Tragedy: A Schutzean Portrait.- 7. The Ethnographic Text as Literary Form.- 8. Dramas, Narratives, and the Postmodern Challenge.- 9. On Multiple Realities and the World of Film.- 10. Autobiography: Precarious Totality.- Notes on Contributors.

Editorial Reviews

The main part of this text is an essay constructed from passages found in 35 years of Schutz's writings and based on the notes he wrote for a 1955 lecture the sociology of how audiences and writers relate to each other. The editor argues that the result can be considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of literature. Then, ten invited essays, written by German, American, and Japanese scholars, comment on such issues raised by the construction as the role of autobiography, the nature of ethnographic texts, and Schutz's interpretation of Don Quixote. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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