2021 - Franco Angeli
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Topic relevance as the basic structuration of the field of consciousness
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- My aim is to depict Schutz's theory of topic relevance as his own distinctive phenomenology of consciousness. I will show that his conception of consciousness is elaborated from at least three types of elements. First, I will disclose Husserl's influence on Schutz in this matter. I will list a few Husserlian terms that Schutz takes into consideration such as noema, horizon, parts and wholes, attentional ray and passive synthesis. Second, I will show that Schutz turns to Gurwitsch's idea that consciousness is a field of experience where the previously listed elements are held together and find their relational meaning. Third, I will expose how all these elements taken from Husserl and Gurwitsch are reinterpreted by Schutz as being relative to relevance as a basic phenomenon of our mind's selective activity which puts at work different levels of our personality according to the schizophrenic ego hypothesis. [Publisher's text].
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Sociologia e ricerca sociale : 124, 1, 2021-
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ISSN: 1971-8446
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In this issue
- Introduction to the problem of relevance
- Alfred Schutz's conception of relevance and its significances for the social sciences
- Topic relevance as the basic structuration of the field of consciousness
- Relevance and cognitive style : on the double characterization of science in Alfred Schutz
- Schutzian social cartography
- The system of relevances and enclaves
- Life-World, relevance and power : phenomenology and social critique
- On the unconscious nature of Because motives : some considerations on the Unconscious in Alfred Schutz
- Relevance and time in Schutzian theory : methodological implications to interpretative biographical research
- Relevance and embodied reflexivity : constellations work between Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Garfinkel
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