Table of Contents

Preface 1. Maturing in a Troubled Vienna Schutz's Youth The Austrian/Viennese Context: Up to World War I From War's End to the Anschluss Education and Employment Marriage and the Founding of a Family 2. Social Science and Philosophy (1919-38): Weber and Bergson Schutz and Max Weber From Bergson to Husserl 3. Philosophy and Social Science (1919-38): Husserl and Mises and Kelsen Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology and The Phenomenology of the Social World The Austrian Economic School, Value-Freedom, and the Context of Economic Science Hans Kelsen, the Pure Theory of Law, and Alfred Schutz 4. Matters Unpublished The Problem of Personality in the Social World Diary of a 1937 Visit to the United States 5. Anschluss The Emigration of the Immediate Family, March 13, 1938-June 12, 1938 Arranging the Emigration of Schutz's Parents from Vienna to Paris, June 12, 1938-April 6, 1939 (and Ilse's Mother, Gisela Heim, June 4, 1939) The Departure of the Schutz Family from Paris for the United States, April 7, 1939-July 14, 1939 6. Reestablishing Life in the United States and Its Insecurities Helping Others Emigrate Business as Usual and a New Academic World 7. World War II Years Editing, Teaching, War Research, Business Family and Friends Publications A Son's Illness 8. Schutz, a Nihilist? Gurwitsch and Schutz on "The Stranger" The Voegelin/Schutz Debate Assessment of the Debate: The Need for a Participant Stance in Ethics 9. Peace and Productivity after the War (1945-51) Working with Reitler and Company after the War The New School for Social Research The PPR Editorial Board and the International Phenomenological Society A Family Tragedy and Friends Research and Publications 10. The Years 1952 to 1956: Responsible Life at its Fullest The Final Years of Full Business Life Family Life: Caring for Older and Younger Generations The International Phenomenological Society and Editorial Duties Teaching and Administrating at the New School Schutz, the Mentor 11. The Years 1952 to 1956: Philosophical Midwifery; Correspondence and Research Collegiality in Correspondence Publishing on Wide-Ranging Relevances 12. The Search for Equality "Equality and the Meaning Structure of the Social World" Aspects of Human Equality: The Fifteenth Symposium of the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion The Institute of Ethics in 1956 Schutz, Ethics, and the Search for Equality 13. Triumphs and Decline, 1957-58 Disputes and Success in the World of Phenomenology Active Citizenship in the New School Community Encouraging and Advising Colleagues through Correspondence Success at Royaumont and in Publication 14. Death and New Beginnings Illness, Death, and Condolences Posthumous Publications Successors Appendix: The Courses Schutz Taught Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Michael D. Barber is Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University and the author of several books, including Equality and Diversity: Phenomenological Investigations of Prejudice and Discrimination.

Reviews

"Michael D. Barber impressively situates Schutz's philosophical ideas and commitments within the context of Schutz's own life, providing an immense amount of historical detail and insight into the broader intellectual and social history of the early half of the last century."