The Typicality and Habituality of Everyday Cognitive Experience in Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology of the Lifeworld

ALEXIS EMANUEL GROS

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

The Center for Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social and Political Sciences at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Lugar: Iasi; Año: 2017 vol. 9

2067-3655

The aim of this paper is to systematically analyze Schutz's phenomenological account of the typicality and habituality of everyday cognitive experience, and to identify the Husserlian leitmotifs that inform it. In order to do so, Iwill proceed in three steps. First (1), I will briefly present the main lines of Schutz's theoretical project; second (2), I will scrutinize his Husserlian account of typification as a passive sort of interpretation; and finally (3), I will examine his ?also Husserlinspired? analysis of the structure and genesis of the habitualized stock of knowledge at hand.