7 Phenomenological Sociology and Standpoint Theory: On the Critical Use of Alfred Schutz’s American Writings in the Feminist Sociologies of Dorothy E. Smith and Patricia Hill Collins

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Table of Abbreviations XI
5. 1 Introduction: American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration 1
6. I American Philosophy
7. 2 Lewis and the Exiled Empiricists 31
8. 3 Speculative Philosophy of Science vs. Logical Positivism: Preliminary Round 53
9. 4 Columbia Naturalism and the Analytic Turn: Eclipse or Synthesis? 77
10. II Phenomenology
11. 5 Was North America Fertile Ground for the Early Phenomenological Movement? 103
12. 6 Reestablishing Phenomenology in America 129
13. 7 Phenomenological Sociology and Standpoint Theory: On the Critical Use of Alfred Schutz’s American Writings in the Feminist Sociologies of Dorothy E. Smith and Patricia Hill Collins 145
14. III Logical Empiricism
15. 8 Reviving the Unity of Science Movement: Philipp Frank’s Journey to Harvard 169
16. 9 Herbert Feigl on the Idea of a “Scientific Humanism” 191
17. 10 The Failed Reception of Voluntarism in Logical Empiricism 211
18. IV Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
19. 11 Philosophical Flaschenpost: Critical Theory and the Transatlantic History of Postwar Philosophy 235
20. 12 Ernest Nagel and Felix Oppenheim Respond to Leo Strauss, and the Road Not Taken 257
21. 13 ‘Immanentizing the Eschaton’: Eric Voegelin, Hans Kelsen, and the Debate over Secular Religion 279
22. Contributors 299
23. Index 303