Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations: Selected Writings.Helmut R. Wagner

AbstractIn my general aim to probe a non-reductionist Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement, considering social self-other relations and the epistemic 2PP in social syn-aesthetic tuning-ins, synchronisations and tuning-outs, this paper amplifies the Aristotelian common sense concept κοινὴ αἲσθησις2 by analysing the concept and metaphor of “resonance”3 in contemporary debates on >resonance< as acoustic and multimodal figure of thought. Resonance as shown in scientific models derived from acoustics will be applied to an aesthetic comunity of sensing and making music together as explored in Alfred Schütz, as well as in social relations in social psychology. Finally, this paper puts resonance to test as well in technical atunements of social relations and closes with the necessary resistance to imposition of social resonance, introduced in this paper as xenoresonance.

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Social Theory and Media Theory: Contributions of Schutz to the Understanding of New Social Realities

Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network ◽

10.31165/nk.2020.132.580 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 49-63

Author(s):

Ana Beatriz Martins ◽

Victor Piaia

Keyword(s):

Social Theory ◽

Social Relations ◽

Media Theory ◽

Alfred Schutz ◽

Space And Time ◽

Social Theories ◽

The Media ◽

Alfred Schütz ◽

Made In

This article aims to contribute to the debate about time and the new social realities resulting from recent changes in the media field. For this, we propose a rereading of a well-known author in social theory: Alfred Schutz. Schutz highlighted the importance of media and the modification of the concept of time. The author did not think of time only descriptively. Instead, he opened a deep dialogue about consciousness and social relations, in perspective with the concepts of space and time, conceptually elaborating these relations. The article has two sections, each corresponding to an approach to time made in media theories and recent social theories. The first one discusses a possible acceleration of time, and the second one discusses the relation of time to memory. We bring the debates to the article, and Schutz's contributions to them, fostering the debate between social theory and media theory, as well as contributing conceptually to recent reflections.

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Der gut informierte Bürger: Alfred Schütz und die Onlinekommunikation

Relation ◽

10.1553/relation5s281 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 281-300

Author(s):

Harald Rau

Keyword(s):

Alfred Schutz ◽

Alfred Schütz

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Alfred Schütz : une autre théorie de la pertinence et son application en traduction

Fachsprache ◽

10.24989/fs.v40i1-2.1603 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 40 (1-2) ◽

pp. 63-78

Author(s):

Margarete Flöter-Durr ◽

Thierry Grass

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Information Science ◽

Relevance Theory ◽

Target Language ◽

Translation Theory ◽

Alfred Schutz ◽

Legal Translation ◽

Translation Techniques ◽

Alfred Schütz ◽

One Year

Despite the work of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson (1989), the concept of relevance has not enjoyed the popularity it deserved among translators as it appears to be more productive in information science and sociology than in translation studies. The theory of relevance provides underpinnings of a unified account of translation proposed by Ernst-August Gutt. However, if the concept of relevance should take into account all parameters of legal translation, the approach should be pragmatic and not cognitive: The aim of a relevant translation is to produce a legal text in the target language which appears relevant to the lawyer in the target legal system, namely a text that can be used in the same way as the original source text. The legal translator works as a facilitator from one legal system into another and relevance is the core of this pragmatic approach which requires translation techniques like adaptation rather than through-translation or calque (in the terminology of Delisle/Lee-Jahnk/Cormier 1999). This contribution tries to show that relevance theory, which was developed in the field of sociology by Alfred Schütz, could also be applied to translation theory with the aim of producing a correct translation in a concrete situation. Some examples extracted from one year of the practice of an expert law translator (German-French) at the Court of Appeal in the Alsace region illustrate our claim and underpin an approach of legal translation and its heuristics that is both pragmatic and reflexive.

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