Schütz, Alfred#
b. Vienna, April 13, 1899, d. New York (USA), May 20, 1959. Sociologist, student of L. von Mises, influenced by international law scholar H. Kelsen and by the Vienna Circle. From 1939 exile in New York, where he was a full-time financial lawyer up to the 1950s. Did not become professor at the New School for Social Research in New York until 1952, taught there until his death. S. regarded sociology as an empirical social science; worked esp. on the social structures of everyday life. Was widely ignored in German-speaking countries during his life, many of his books were published posthumously.
Works#
Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt, 1932; Mozart and the Philosophers, 1956; Das Problem der Relevanz, 1970; Gesammelte Aufsaetze, 3 vols., 1970; Die Strukturen der Lebenswelt, 1975.Literature#
R. Grathoff, Milieu und Lebenswelt, 1989.