Abstract

LOPEZ, Daniela Griselda. Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales: El diálogo intelectual entre Alfred Schutz y Talcott Parsons. Enfoques [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.2, pp.69-92. ISSN 1669-2721.

The article aims to analyze the intellectual dialogue between Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons recovering as the main topic of the correspondence the relation between philosophy and the social sciences. Fundamentally the interest is in revisiting, from a phenomenological basis, the distinction between "naïve" and "critical" philosophy regarding knowledge theory. Taking this distinction as his cornerstone, Schutz considers that is necessary to overcome the "naivety" of empirical science by standing for a critical philosophy which turns to the conditions for the possibility of knowledge. Schutzian proposal for an epistemic claim to the life-world points to this project of foundation by laying out an articulation or "complementarity" between Parsonian categories -the action's frame of reference- and an ontology of the life-world that incorporates the reflection on time and intersubjectivity. However, as the correspondence shows, Parsons' rejection of these problems is categorical. The author rejects not only the philosophical reflection but also the necessity to study the features of the life-world, as a result Schutz's integrative project and his intention of complementarity are from the very beginning emphatically set aside. This response led us to reflect on the characteristics of the intellectual dialogue which was held between the authors. By making use of Hans-Georg Gadamer hermeneutics, it is put forward that the correspondence can be interpreted as a case of what the author calls the increasing "monologization" of the philosophical thought which consists in the incapacity for finding a common languaje, that makes understanding and mutual comprehension difficult.

Keywords : Alfred Schutz; Talcott Parsons; Phenomenology; Epistemology; Life-world; Monologization.

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