(Mid-June of 1985)
[PART ONE]
Chapter 1 Growth and Early Maturity
The First Seventeen Years
:Parents and Children :Secondary School
:Music and Literature :Youth Movement
:Disruption: War Service of Eighteen Months
:World War I :Boy into Combat Soldier
The Next Fifteen Years
:Professional Plans and University Studies
:Austrian Business Career :Public Activities
:Matters Politics :Family :Wife, Companion, Secretary
Plans for Living and Plan for Life
:Schutz's Private System of Relevances :Choices and Motivations
:A Man of Several Worlds
:The Shock of War and a Dualistic Life Plan
:Value Neutrality and Social Involvement: Agreement and Contrast
:Flexibility in Consistency
Footnotes
Chapter 2 Social Background and Interpersonal Influences
Introductory Remarks
Major Factors
:Note on Background Sources :The Personal Factor
:The Academic Setting :The Subsoil of Philosophy
:Generation Experience :The Intellectual-Cultural Atmosphere
:The Task
Minds and Moods of Viennese Intellectuals
:Austria's Cultural-Intellectual Heritage :Viennese Culture
:After the Catastrophy :The Austro-Marxists
:Intermediate Remark
Emancipated Jews
:Main Sources Consulted :Viennese Jews and Viennese Antisemitism
:Jews and Austrian Capitalism :Assimilations and Conversion
:Romantic and Negative Reactions
:Jewish Intellectulas and Academic Antisemitism
The Viennes Circles
:The Coffee-House Culture :The Circles
:LIST of the Circles under Consideration
:Karl Menger's Mathematical Colloquium
:The Doctor's Seminar of Spann
:The Austrian Sociological Circle :The Schlick Circle
:The Kelsen Circle :The Geistkreis :A Concluding Remark
The Mises Seminar
:Ludwig von Mises :The Private Seminar of von Mises
:Schutz's Mises Lecture
End of an Intellectual Movement
:Circle above Politics :No Transatlantic Transfer
Footnotes
Chapter 3 Exposure to the Social Sciences
Cultural Humanism
:The Tradition of the German Geisteswisenschaften
:Dilthey's Partial 'Subjectivity'
Encounter with Political Economy
:The 'Dispute about Method' :Theory of Marginal Utility
:Schutz and Political Economy
The Impact of Max Weber
:Background :Viennese Interlude :Charismatic Echo
:After-Effects
Encounter with Sociology
:Exposure to Sociology: The Vienna Versons :Schutz and von Mises
Footnotes
Chapter 4 A From Student to Scholar [HRW COPY (2/8/86)]
Toward a Subjective Theory of the Social World
:The Consistency of Intellectual Progress
:Steps of an Intellectual Development
:A Time of Learning--A Time of Doing
:Stages of Scholarly Realization
Intellectual Expansion and Exploration: The Preparatory Phase
:Dual Foundations :Focus on Weberian Sociology
:Studying in Isolation--Learning Together :Knowledge about Weber
:Focus on Bergsonian Philosophy :Bergson and Schutz
Footnotes
Chapter 4 B From Student to Scholar
Introductory Remarks
Toward a Subjective Theory of Social World
:The Consistency of Intellectual Progress
:Steps of an Intellectual Development
:A Time of Learning--A Time of Doing
:Stages of Scholarly Realizations
Intellectual Expansion and Exploration: The Preparatory Phase
:Dual Foundations :Focus on Weberian Sociology
:Acquaintance with Weber's Sociology :Knowledge about Weber
:Focus on Bergsonian Philosophy :Bergson and Schutz
Footnotes
Chapter 5 Problem Formation and Project Design: The Experimental Phase
Introductory Remarks
The Project
:The Manuscript of the Bergson Period
:The Maximum Dimensions of the Project
Addendum: Composite Outline
:Selective Comments :The Form of Execution
The Search for a Start
:Opening: A Philosophical Crisis : Uncertain Access: Neo-Kantianism
:Uncertain Access: Scheler :Uncertain Access: Bergson
:Uncertain Access: Kant Himself
Weberian Gateway
:Weber's Attempt
The Search for Foundations
:A Threefold Basis? :Bergson: The Philosophical Anchorage
:The Objective of the Study :Toward the Execution of the Project
Footnotes
Chapter 6 A Execution in Tangential Direction: The Bergson Phase
Bergsonian Support
:Sources :Inner Duration and Reflection
Life Forms and Meaning Structure
:Approach to a Central Theme :Major Focus: Thou :Memory
:Meaning
Symbolization and Symbol Relation
:The Bridge Between Experience and Symbol :Life Forms
:The Grounding of the Life Forms (21) :The Linkage of Symbolization
Intersubjectivity
:The Thou Problem :The Thou-posited I
:Thou: A Phenomenological Interpretation :A Comment
Language: Objectivation: Communication
:'Objecticvation' :Trans-Subjectivity Speaker and Listener
The Listening Observer
:The Uninvolver third
Attention and Relevance
:Attention to Life :Relevance
(B)
Bergson and Schutz: A Critical Appraisal
:Acceptance of Bergson's Basic Conceptions, Examples, and Notions
:Limitations :Developments beyond Bergson
:Reifying Analogy and Traces of Fallacy: Hypostasis
Suspended Execution
:A Project Aground :The State of a Manuscript
:The Limits of Bergson
Footnotes
Conclusion to Part One
Chapter 6 B Execution on an Insufficient Basis: The Bergson Phase
Bergsonian Support
:Sources :The Scope of the Project :Inner Duration and Reflection
Life Forms and Meaning Structure
:Approach to a Central Problem :Major Focus: Thou :Memory
:Meaning
Symbolization and Symbol Relation
:The Bridge Between Experience and Symbol :Life Forms
:The Grounding of the Life Forms :The Linkage of Symbolization
Intersubjectivity
:The Thou Problem :The Thou-Posited I
:Thou: A Phenomenological Interpretation :A Comment
Language: Objectivation: Communication
:Objectivation :Trans-Subjectivity :Speaker and Listener
The Listening Observer
:The uninvolved Third
Attention and Relevance
:Attention to Life :Relevance
Substantive Essays
:Language and Grammar :Literature Art Forms :Drama and Opera
Bergson and Schutz
:Acceptance of Bergson's Basic Conceptions, Examples and Notions
:Limitations :Developments Beyond Bergson
:Reifying Analogy and Traces of Fallacy: Hypostasis
Suspended Execution
:A Project Aground :The State of a Manuscript
:The Limits of Bergson
Footnotes