Psathas2007

Psathas2007
BibType	ARTICLE
Key	Psathas2007
Author(s)	George Psathas
Title	Lebenswelt origins of the sciences
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Tag(s)	EMCA, Basic Resources
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Year	2007
Language	English
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Journal	Human Studies
Volume	30
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Pages	1-2
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Editor’s Note: In 2004 Harold Garfinkel was invited to present the annual Schutz Memorial Lecture at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) in October in Memphis, Tennessee. The Lecture is co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Association the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and SPHS. Hospitalized in an automobile accident, he was unable to attend the meetings and present his paper in person. Garfinkel arranged to have two of his colleagues and former students, Ken Liberman and D. Lawrence Wieder, select passages that interested them from his longer manuscript and give the presentation. One of their manuscripts is presented here as an Introduction to the larger work.

The Lecture Award also stipulated that the manuscript would be published in Human Studies, the official journal of SPHS. This longer manuscript submitted by Garfinkel represents a work still in progress, still being added to and revised and which is intended to be a book. Human Studies is pleased and proud to present it to our readers.

Sections of the manuscript which remain unfinished and which indicate the directions which Garfinkel plans to pursue are presented as he wrote them and noted as footnotes in relevant sections. He had organized the manuscript into several sections some of which are presented at the end and are later to be incorporated into the body of the work. They are included here in the order in which they appear in the manuscript. The unfinished later sections are included as an Appendix.

In general, the Editor has tried to preserve all of Garfinkel’s writing in the exact form in which he submitted it. Parts that are incomplete and which represent notes to himself are incorporated into footnotes in the places where he originally had located them. In this way we hope to preserve as carefully as possible the direction of his thought and his manner and mode of writing. We hope this will give the reader a good sense of how Garfinkel works and how much thought and effort are incorporated in these various sections and sub-sections of his work.

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