One: Mead’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- I. Intersubjectivity as a Problem of the Social Group.- 1. The Social Group of Determinate Interobjectivity: The Invertebrates.- 2. The Social Group of Indeterminate 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 Modern Society.- b. The Ideal Democratic Group of Creative Intersubjectivity.- c. The Artistic and Scientific Groups.- Notes.- II. Critical Remarks to Mead’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- 1. Practical Intersubjectivity and the Social Group of Creative Intersubjectivity.- 2. Mead’s Conception of the Social Group and its Limitations.- 3. The Rational Character of Mead’s Conception of the Social Group, its Intersubjective Presuppositions, and Required Revisions.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Two: Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- III. Intersubjectivity as a Problem of Context and the Milieu-World.- 1. The Reflective Context of a Phenomenology of Consciousness.- 2. The Reflective Context of Science.- 3. The Context of the Milieu-World.- a. The Milieu.- b. The Radically Implicit and Relatively Impertinent Knowledge of an Intersubjective Milieu-World.- c. The Three Fundamental Modes of Organization of Milieux and their Intersubjective Relevancy.- 4. The World as a Development of Different Contexts: The Fundamental Question Concerning the Relationship between the Reflective Context of Science and the Milieu-World.- Notes.- IV. Critical Remarks to Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- 1. Intersubjectivity as a Transcendental Problem: The Relationship between the Transcendental Order of Existence of Science and the World of Everyday Life.- 2. The ‘Intersubjectivity’ Dialogue: The Correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch.- a. The Critique of Objective Time and the Transcendental Analysis of Intersubjectivity.- b. Intersubjectivity as Ultimately a Mundane Problem and the Constitutive Function of Consciousness.- c. Scientific Intersubjectivity and the Life-World as Exclusively a Foundation.- d. The Transformation of Lived Experience in the Phenomenological Analysis of the Life-World.- 3. The Limitations of Gurwitsch’s Theory of Intersubjectivity and the Social World.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Three: Schutz’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- V. The Fundamental Levels to the Problem of Intersubjectivity.- 1. The Three Fundamental Levels and the Phenomenology of the Natural Attitude.- 2. Knowledge of the Dasein of the Other: The Fundamental Structures and Stratifications of the Life-World.- 3. Knowledge of the So-Sein of the Other: The Relative Natural World View of a Group.- 4. Knowledge of the Concrete Motives of the Other’s Action: A Theory of Social Action.- Notes.- VI. Towards an Integrated Theory of Intersubjectivity: The Person and The Social Group.- 1. The Theory of Relevance.- 2. The Theory of Signs and Symbols.- 3. The Person in the Social Group 110 Notes.- VII. Critical Remarks to Schutz’s Theory of Intersubjectivity.- 1. The Luckmann Position: Intersubjectivity as a Problem of the Division of Labor.- 2. The Practical Attitude as the Foundation of Intersubjectivity and Everyday Life.- 3. Intimacy and Anonymity.- 4. The Person.- 5. The Social Group and Taken for Granted Symbols.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Four: Intersubjectivity and the Social Group.- VIII. A General Program for Any Future Analysis of the Problem of Intersubjectivity.- 1. The Phenomenological Reduction: Intersubjectivity as a Transcendental or Mundane Problem.- 2. The Other as an ‘Immanent Transcendence’, or Transcendent Immanence’ and Responsible Social Actor.- 3. Intersubjectivity as an Egological or Group Problem.- 4. Intersubjectivity as a Constitutive Product, or as Taken for Granted and Accomplished.- Conclusion.- Notes.- IX. Reflections on the Problem of Intersubjectivity and the Social Group.- 1. The Social Group and the Fiduciary Attitude.- a. The Adduction of Social Meaning to the Practical Attitude.- b. The Fiduciary Attitude and the Practical Attitude.- c. The Fiduciary Attitude.- d. The Clarificatory Potential of the Fiduciary Attitude.- e. The Fiduciary Attitude and Relativism.- 2. The Everyday Life-World.- 3. The Milieu.- 4. The Affiliatory Group.- 5. The Institution.- 6. The Symbolic Cosmos.- Conclusion: The Person and the Social Group.- Notes.- Name Index.
