Contents

Editor's note

Arvid Brodersen

8-15

The social world and the theory of social action

Alfred Schütz

3-19

The dimensions of the social world

Alfred Schütz

20-63

The problem of rationality in the social world

Alfred Schütz

64-88

The stranger

Alfred Schütz

91-105

The homecomer

Alfred Schütz

106-119

The well-informed citizen

An essay on the social distribution of knowledge

Alfred Schütz

120-134

Don Quixote and the problem of reality

Alfred Schütz

135-158

Making music together

A study in social relationship

Alfred Schütz

159-178

Mozart and the philosophers

Alfred Schütz

179-200

Santayana on society and government

Alfred Schütz

201-225

Equality and the meaning structure of the social world

Alfred Schütz

226-273

Some equivocations in the notion of responsibility

Alfred Schütz

274-276

Tiresias, or our knowledge of future events

Alfred Schütz

277-293

Index