The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory

Carlos Belvedere is Principal Researcher at the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET); Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. He has authored several books and papers in the field of social phenomenology. He serves as associate editor in the journal Schutzian Research and as editorial board member of the journal Human Studies. He was co-chair of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science.

Alexis Gros is Researcher at both the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). He is also a lecturer at the University ofBuenos Aires and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has authored several papers on phenomenology, social theory, and Critical Theory. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2019 to 2021. In 2020, he was awarded the Ilse Schutz Memorial Prize of The Alfred Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science. He is member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and is currently co-chair of the Contemporary Critical Theory Studies Group (GEteCC) at the University of Buenos Aires.

Introduction.- Part I General Considerations on Macrophenomenology.- Macro Strata of the Social World: Institutions, Social Classes, and the State.- Macro-social Awareness in Everyday Life: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Society.- Part II Phenomenology and Politics.- Democracy as a Way of Being in the World: Responsivity as the Essence of the Common Good.- Phenomenology of Power: Reflections on Social Construction and Subjective Constitution.- Understanding Opinions: A Phenomenological Analysis.- Part III Phenomenology of Organizations and Institutions.- Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations.- Institutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity.- The Durable Dimensions of Social Institutions: A Generative Phenomenological Approach.- Part IV Phenomenology of Culture.- Cultural Integration: A Macrophenomenological Analysis.- Cultural Objects with or Without Cultural Difference?.- Part V Phenomenology of History.- Husserl's Views on Levels of History with Their Modesof Rationality, Self-Preservation, and Types of Social Organization.- History as Macro-phenomenon: Heidegger and Gadamer.- Dialectics and Contingency: Merleau-Ponty and the Historical Network.- Part VI Collective Personalities and Agency.- Supra-personal Agency: A Husserlian Approach to the Problem of Individual Responsibility in Relation to Collective Agency and Social Normativity.- Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz on Collective Personalities.- The Place of Imagination in the Sociology of Action: An Essay Drawing from Schutz.- Part VII Phenomenology of Digitalization.- The (Dis-)Entanglement of Knowledge and Experience in a Datafied Life-World.- The "Waste Land" of the Digitalized Life-World: Alfred Schutz's Contribution to a Theory of Digitalized Societies.- Part VIII Social Classes and Sociomaterial Structures.- Doing Phenomenology on Social Classes: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and Possibilities.- Depragmatized Knowledge and Sociomaterial Structures: Illustration from Economics as a Province of Special Knowledge.