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With the simpliciter sense of phenomenology as an approach to the question of philosophical anthropology, we must now move toward the proper sense of phenomenology in order to analyse the crisis of social science. The task of this chapter is to show that the phenomenology of the Phenomenological Movement is a form of normative philosophy of social science. This requires developing an understanding of the phenomenology proper of the Movement itself, we must discern what sort of norms this phenomenology would impose on social science. To discern these strictures of phenomenology I turn in this chapter to the work of Alfred Schutz. This requires a detailed analysis and expansion of his notion of provinces of meaning. Once we know how a province of meaning operates, the constituents necessary to make it function effectively, we can see how the strictures of phenomenology will fulfil those requirements.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92120-4_3

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