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The
World of the We is not private to either of us, but is our
world, the one common intersubjective world, which is right
there in front of us. It is only from the face-to-face relationship,
from the common lived experience of the world in the We, that
the intersubjective world can be constituted. (Schutz 1970,
193)
By
the We-relation, thus established, we both - he, addressing
himself to me, and I, listening to him, - are living in our
mutual vivid present, directed toward the thought to be realized
in and by the communicating process. We grow old together.
(Schutz 1970, 207)
Communicating
with one another presupposes, therefore, the simultaneous
partaking of the partners in various dimensions of outer and
inner time Ð in short in growing older together. This seems
to be valid for all kinds of communicating, the essentially
polythetic ones as well as those conveying meaning in conceptual
terms Ð that is, those in which the result of the communicative
process can be grasped monothetically. (Schutz
1970, 217)
Alfred
Schutz on the web:
The Alfred Schutz
Archive
Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
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