Strassheim, Jan: 'Passive' and 'Active' Modes of Openness to the Other: Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity

In Andrej Božič, Thinking Togetherness: Phenomenology and Sociality. Ljubljana: Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities. pp. 169-181. 2023To clarify the structure of intersubjectivity that underlies any social world, Alfred Schutz developed a “mundane” phenomenology based on constructive criticism of Husserl’s transcendental approach and with reference to Max Weber and Henri Bergson. This chapter addresses Schutz’s understanding of the relation between ego and alter ego as the focal point of in