The French version of this book, Theorie du champ de la conscience (1957), appeared under the auspices of the International Phenomenological Society. This present version appears through the collaboration of the staff of the Duquesne Studies, Psychological Series. In writing this book, I wanted to make it a phenomenological study, not a book about phenomenology. The intention was to advance c- tain phenomenological problems rather than to present a survey of or a report on phenomenology. My point of view is that of the pheno- nologist at work, not of an observer of a methodology from without. While it appeared desirable to expound in a detailed manner some of Husserl's notions and theories which have importance for phenomen- ogy as a whole, I have con?ned my treatment to those which have direct and immediate reference to the problems treated in this study. The manuscript of this book was completed in 1953 before the appe- ance of several volumes of Husserliana among which vol. VI, Die Krisis der Europaischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phanomenologie (1954), and vol. IX, Phanomenologische Psychologie (1962), have particular bearing upon the problems dealt with in this book. Also the most recent presentation of Gestalt theory by W. Metzger, Psychologie (1st ed. 1940, 2nd ed. 1954) did not come to my attention before the completion of the manuscript."

1 The present volume is rich in essential phenomenological descriptions 2 and insightful historico-critical analyses, some of which cannot be fully appreciated, however, except by close examination on the part of the reader. Accordingly, such a task ought to be left to the consideration and judgment of the latter, save where such discussions are directly relevant to the topics I will be dwelling upon. I prefer, then, to approach the matters and questions contained here otherwise, namely, archeologically. In this I 3 follow Jose Huertas-Jourda, the editor of the corresponding French vol- 4 ume, in his felicitous terminological choice, although I adopt it here for my purposes in an etymological sense, i. e. , as signifying a return to prin- 5 ciples or origins. This, after all, is consistent not only with the spirit and practice of phenomenology, as acknowledged by Aron Gurwitsch often enough, but as well with what he has actually said, to wit: it is a qu- tion of 1 Cf. , e. g. , infra,in An Outline of Constitutive Phenomenology, Chapter 4, pp. 185 ff. (Henceforth I shall refer to this book as Outline. ) This essay will be devoted to the study of selected parts of the contents of this volume, although, when necessary, use will be made here of other works by various authors, including Gurwitsch. 2 Cf. , e. g. , ibid. , Chapter 3, pp. 107 ff.

The articles collected in the present volume were written during a period of more than 30 years, the ?rst having been published in 1929, the last in 1961. They are arranged here in a systematic, not a chronological, order, starting from a few articles mainly concerned with psychological m- ters and then passing on to phenomenology in the proper sense. Within the latter group, the sequence is from articles dealing with more g- eral questions of principle to those in which rather special questions are discussed. The articles are reprinted or translated unchanged except for "phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego," in which a certain number of pages have been omitted because the author has long since come to consider them erroneous. Almost all of the articles are in the service of Husserlian phenomen- ogy, which they are intended to advance and to develop further rather than merely expound. When the author made his ?rst acquaintance with Husserl's philosophy about 40 years ago, he was overwhelmed by the spirit of uncompromising integrity and radical philosophical respon- bility, by the total devotedness which made the man disappear behind his work. Soon the young beginner came to realize the fruitfulness both of what Husserl had actually accomplished and of what he had initiated, the promise of further fruitful work.

Kurt Goldstein starb am 19. September 1965. Bis kurz vor seinem Tode arbeitete er an dem Plan, eine Auswahl seiner wichtigsten ktir- zeren Sehriften zu ver6ffentliehen; ein verbindender Text sollte die ungebrochene Entwieklung seiner Ideen von ihren anfangIiehen Keimen bis zur spateren vollen Entfaltung darlegen. Der Plan kam nieht mehr zur Vollendung; aber die vorliegende Zusammenstellung der flir Kurt Goldstein's Lebenswerk bedeutsamsten Aufsatze mag dessen innere Einheit erhellen. Seine posthum ver6ffentliehte Auto- biographie (s. unten S. 1 ff.) gibt eine knappe Zusammenfassung seiner grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Ziele und Ergebnisse. Auskunft tiber seine hinterlassenen wissenschaftlichen Papiere ist durch mich erhaltlieh. Herm Professor Aron Gurwitsch, dem langjahrigen Freunde Kurt Goldstein's und intimen Kenner seiner Ideen, der die Einleitung zu diesem Band gesehrieben und an seiner Vorbereitung intensiv tei!- genommen hat, spreehe ich aueh hier meine Dankbarkeit aus. DesgIeichen danke ich den Verlagshausem, mit deren Erlaubnis die hier enthaltenen Sehriften Kurt Goldstein's wieder abgedruekt werden konnten. ELSE M. GOLDSTEIN HAUDEK 1080 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10028 EINLEITUNG Die Aufnahme in die Serie Phaenomenoiogica der im vorgelegten Bande vereinigten Arbeiten rechtfertigt sich voIIauf durch die philo. sophische Bedeutsamkeit sowohl dieser Aufsatze wie des gesamten Werkes von Kurt Goldstein - ungeachtet ihres weitgehend neuro* logischen InhaIts und ihrer urspriinglichen Herkunft aus neurolo* gischer Forschung und Praxis. Genauer genommen besteht diese phi.

Alfred Schutz devoted his life to a clarification of the foun dations of the social sciences. His first formulation of the perti nent problems is contained in DER SINNHAFTE AUFBAU DER SOZIALEN WELT, EINE EINLEITUNG IN DIE VERSTEHENDE SOZIOLOGIE, now available in a second unrevised German edition with an English translation in preparation. Since I932, the date of this work, Alfred Schutz pursued painstaking and detailed investigations of issues which arose in connection with his early endeavors. These investigations were originally published as a series of essays and monographs over a period of about twenty years and are now assembled in the COLLECTED PAPERS of which this is the third and final volume. They form a unitary whole insofar as a common core of problems and theoretical ideas is presented from varying perspectives. Together DER SINNHAFTE AUFBAu DER SOZIALEN WELT and the three volumes of COL LECTED PAPERS set forth a comprehensive and consistent theory of the world of everyday life as the reality with which the social sciences are essentially concerned. Alfred Schutz was preparing a systematic presentation of his theory and of the results of his investigations into the struc tures of the world of everyday life when death overtook him. The manuscript containing the final statement of his philosophical and sociological thinking was not completely ready for publi cation at the time of his death. It is now being brought into book form by Professor Thomas Luckmann, one of his former students.

The French version of this book, Theorie du champ de la conscience (1957), appeared under the auspices of the International Phenomenological Society. This present version appears through the collaboration of the staff of the Duquesne Studies, Psychological Series. In writing this book, I wanted to make it a phenomenological study, not a book about phenomenology. The intention was to advance c- tain phenomenological problems rather than to present a survey of or a report on phenomenology. My point of view is that of the pheno- nologist at work, not of an observer of a methodology from without. While it appeared desirable to expound in a detailed manner some of Husserl's notions and theories which have importance for phenomen- ogy as a whole, I have con?ned my treatment to those which have direct and immediate reference to the problems treated in this study. The manuscript of this book was completed in 1953 before the appe- ance of several volumes of Husserliana among which vol. VI, Die Krisis der Europaischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phanomenologie (1954), and vol. IX, Phanomenologische Psychologie (1962), have particular bearing upon the problems dealt with in this book. Also the most recent presentation of Gestalt theory by W. Metzger, Psychologie (1st ed. 1940, 2nd ed. 1954) did not come to my attention before the completion of the manuscript."

The articles collected in the present volume were written during a period of more than 30 years, the ?rst having been published in 1929, the last in 1961. They are arranged here in a systematic, not a chronological, order, starting from a few articles mainly concerned with psychological m- ters and then passing on to phenomenology in the proper sense. Within the latter group, the sequence is from articles dealing with more g- eral questions of principle to those in which rather special questions are discussed. The articles are reprinted or translated unchanged except for "phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego," in which a certain number of pages have been omitted because the author has long since come to consider them erroneous. Almost all of the articles are in the service of Husserlian phenomen- ogy, which they are intended to advance and to develop further rather than merely expound. When the author made his ?rst acquaintance with Husserl's philosophy about 40 years ago, he was overwhelmed by the spirit of uncompromising integrity and radical philosophical respon- bility, by the total devotedness which made the man disappear behind his work. Soon the young beginner came to realize the fruitfulness both of what Husserl had actually accomplished and of what he had initiated, the promise of further fruitful work.

1 The present volume is rich in essential phenomenological descriptions 2 and insightful historico-critical analyses, some of which cannot be fully appreciated, however, except by close examination on the part of the reader. Accordingly, such a task ought to be left to the consideration and judgment of the latter, save where such discussions are directly relevant to the topics I will be dwelling upon. I prefer, then, to approach the matters and questions contained here otherwise, namely, archeologically. In this I 3 follow Jose Huertas-Jourda, the editor of the corresponding French vol- 4 ume, in his felicitous terminological choice, although I adopt it here for my purposes in an etymological sense, i. e. , as signifying a return to prin- 5 ciples or origins. This, after all, is consistent not only with the spirit and practice of phenomenology, as acknowledged by Aron Gurwitsch often enough, but as well with what he has actually said, to wit: it is a qu- tion of 1 Cf. , e. g. , infra,in An Outline of Constitutive Phenomenology, Chapter 4, pp. 185 ff. (Henceforth I shall refer to this book as Outline. ) This essay will be devoted to the study of selected parts of the contents of this volume, although, when necessary, use will be made here of other works by various authors, including Gurwitsch. 2 Cf. , e. g. , ibid. , Chapter 3, pp. 107 ff.

Alfred Schutz devoted his life to a clarification of the foun dations of the social sciences. His first formulation of the perti nent problems is contained in DER SINNHAFTE AUFBAU DER SOZIALEN WELT, EINE EINLEITUNG IN DIE VERSTEHENDE SOZIOLOGIE, now available in a second unrevised German edition with an English translation in preparation. Since I932, the date of this work, Alfred Schutz pursued painstaking and detailed investigations of issues which arose in connection with his early endeavors. These investigations were originally published as a series of essays and monographs over a period of about twenty years and are now assembled in the COLLECTED PAPERS of which this is the third and final volume. They form a unitary whole insofar as a common core of problems and theoretical ideas is presented from varying perspectives. Together DER SINNHAFTE AUFBAu DER SOZIALEN WELT and the three volumes of COL LECTED PAPERS set forth a comprehensive and consistent theory of the world of everyday life as the reality with which the social sciences are essentially concerned. Alfred Schutz was preparing a systematic presentation of his theory and of the results of his investigations into the struc tures of the world of everyday life when death overtook him. The manuscript containing the final statement of his philosophical and sociological thinking was not completely ready for publi cation at the time of his death. It is now being brought into book form by Professor Thomas Luckmann, one of his former students."

Im vorliegenden Band ist eine Reihe von Aufsatzen zusam- mengefasst, in denen Alfred Schutz sich bei der Behandlung ver- schiedener Fragen immer wieder einem der wichtigsten philoso- phischen Probleme zuwendet: dem Problem der Sozialitat. Der Grossteil dieser Aufsatze ist bereits anderenorts erschienen: doch sind sie weit verstreut und oft schwer zuganglich. Alfred Schutz hatte Maurice Natanson, seinen Schuler und Freund, als Heraus- geber der zahlreichen Schriften, die seit seiner Ankunft in den Vereinigten Staaten Anfang des 2. Weltkriegs entstanden sind, vorgesehen. Er konnte die Verwirklichung dieses Vorhabens nicht mehr miterleben. Die Herausgabe seiner Schriften, die wir mit diesem Band in getreuer Befolgung seiner Anweisungen beginnen, soll einen Denker, dem wir freundschaftlich verbunden waren, in angemessener Weise ehren und dazu beitragen, seine hervor- ragende Bedeutung fur die Phanomenologie herauszustellen - eine Bedeutung, die auf Grund der dramatischen Umstande seines Lebens und wegen seiner grossen Bescheidenheit zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht hinreichend gewurdigt wurde. Ich mochte hier von Schutz als Menschen sprechen und die Feinsinnigkeit seines Geistes darstellen, seine durchdringende Ironie, die Gelassenheit und seinen Mut in der Emigration, den weiten Bereich seiner Interessen, seine jugendhafte Begeisterung und das Einfuhlungsvermogen, das ihn befahigte, sich noch im Alter von 40 Jahren in eine neue Kulturwelt einzuleben - und sich in ihr auszuzeichnen. In der Befurchtung, nicht alles sagen zu konnen, was zu sagen ware, bezw.

Kurt Goldstein starb am 19. September 1965. Bis kurz vor seinem Tode arbeitete er an dem Plan, eine Auswahl seiner wichtigsten ktir- zeren Sehriften zu ver6ffentliehen; ein verbindender Text sollte die ungebrochene Entwieklung seiner Ideen von ihren anfangIiehen Keimen bis zur spateren vollen Entfaltung darlegen. Der Plan kam nieht mehr zur Vollendung; aber die vorliegende Zusammenstellung der flir Kurt Goldstein's Lebenswerk bedeutsamsten Aufsatze mag dessen innere Einheit erhellen. Seine posthum ver6ffentliehte Auto- biographie (s. unten S. 1 ff.) gibt eine knappe Zusammenfassung seiner grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Ziele und Ergebnisse. Auskunft tiber seine hinterlassenen wissenschaftlichen Papiere ist durch mich erhaltlieh. Herm Professor Aron Gurwitsch, dem langjahrigen Freunde Kurt Goldstein's und intimen Kenner seiner Ideen, der die Einleitung zu diesem Band gesehrieben und an seiner Vorbereitung intensiv tei!- genommen hat, spreehe ich aueh hier meine Dankbarkeit aus. DesgIeichen danke ich den Verlagshausem, mit deren Erlaubnis die hier enthaltenen Sehriften Kurt Goldstein's wieder abgedruekt werden konnten. ELSE M. GOLDSTEIN HAUDEK 1080 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10028 EINLEITUNG Die Aufnahme in die Serie Phaenomenoiogica der im vorgelegten Bande vereinigten Arbeiten rechtfertigt sich voIIauf durch die philo. sophische Bedeutsamkeit sowohl dieser Aufsatze wie des gesamten Werkes von Kurt Goldstein - ungeachtet ihres weitgehend neuro* logischen InhaIts und ihrer urspriinglichen Herkunft aus neurolo* gischer Forschung und Praxis. Genauer genommen besteht diese phi.