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The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science

By (author) Robert Gorman

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This study, originally published in 1977, focuses on a critical examination of the life-work of Alfred Schutz, the most important and influential â€˜fatherâ€™ of several recent schools of empirical social research. The author shows why Shutz and his followers fail in their attempts to â€˜humanizeâ€™ empirical social science. The problems they encounter, he argues, are due to their attempt to achieve a methodological synthesis of self-determining subjectivity and empirical criteria of validation, based on Schutzâ€™s heuristic adoption of relevant ideas from Weber and Husserl. This is, in effect, an artificial union of subjectivity and objectivity â€“ their â€˜dual visionâ€™ â€“ that satisfies neither phenomenological nor naturalist perspectives. Dr Gorman suggests that the radical implications of phenomenology must lead to a consistent, socially-conscious method of inquiry, and, in a final chapter, he re-defines the methodological implications of phenomenology with the aid of existential and Marxist categories.

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The Ballerina and the Bull: Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance

Johanna Isaacson
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Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011.

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Fifteen Dogs

AndrÃ© Alexis
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A pack of dogs are granted the power of human thought - but what will it do to them? A surprising and insightful look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.

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Bonsai Success in Southern Africa

Carl Morrow
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In this uniquely Southern African book, Carl Morrow and Keith Kirsten guide readers step by step into the magical realms of bonsai as a hobby, horticultural practice and art form.

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