How is Society Possible? Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitud

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PHAENOMENOLOGICA COLLECTION FONDEE PAR H.L. VAN BREDA ET PUBLIEE SOUS LE PATRONAGE DES CENTRES D'ARCHIVES-HUSSERL

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STEVEN VAITKUS

HOW IS SOCIETY POSSIBLE?

Comite de redaction de la collection: President: S. Usseling (Leuven) Membres: L. Landgrebe (KOln), W. Marx (Freiburg i. Br.), J.N. Mohanty (Philadelphia), P. Ricreur (Paris), E. Stroker (KOln), J. Taminiaux (Louvain-Ia-Neuve), Secretaire: J. Taminiaux

HOW IS SOCIETY POSSIBLE? Intersubjectivity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz

STEVEN VAITKUS University of Bielefeld

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publications Data Vaitkus, Steven, 1955How is society possible? , lntersubjectivity and the fiduciary attitude as problems of the social group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz / Steven Valtkus. p. cm. -- (Phaenomenologica ; 118) 8ased on the author's thesis (Ph. D, )--University of Toronto, 1986. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Phenomenological sociology. 2. Intersubjectivity. 3. Mead, George Herbert. 1863-1931. 4. Gurwitsch. Aron. 5. Schutz. Alfred. 1899-1959. 1. Title. II. Series. HM24.V23 1990 302' .2--dc20 90-5208 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-7432-2 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-2077-4

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION PART ONE: MEAD'S THEORY OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY CHAPTER I. INTER SUBJECTIVITY AS A PROBLEM OF THE SOCIAL GROUP Introduction 1. The Social Group of Determinate Interobjectivity: The Invertebrates 2. The Social Group ofIndeterminate Interobjectivity: The Vertebrates 3. The Social Group of Creative Intersubjectivity and its Evolution: The Human Beings a. The Development of Non-Instinctual Gestures of Adjustment b. The Constitution of the Other as a Social Object c. The Constitution of Oneself as a Social Object: The Social Self or "Me" d. The Constitution of the "Organized Me" and "Generalized Other" e. The Creative Intersubjective Group 4. The Social Evolution of the Creative Intersubjective Group a. The Development of the Primitive Group into Modem Society b. The Ideal Democratic Group of Creative Intersubjectivity c. The Artistic