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The article honors aspects of George Psathas’ life achievement. In particular, it describes his commitment to “Human Studies” and places his social phenomenological research work in dialogue with Alfred Schütz and Harold Garfinkel.
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Human Studies in 2018, Stefan Nicolae and I published a virtual issue that brought together some outstanding contributions to Human Studies from that time. This issue (online only for a short period of time) consisted of the following reprints: Joseph J. Kockelmans, Reflections on Social Theory (1978/1: 1); Iris Marion Young, Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality (1980/3: 1); Lenore Langsdorf, Linguistic Constitution: The Accomplishment of Meaningfulness and the Private Language Dispute (1983/6: 1); Ilja Srubar, On the Origin of ‘Phenomenological’ Sociology (1984/7: 2); Nick Crossley, The Politics of the Gaze: Between Foucault and Merleau-Ponty (1993/16: 4); Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, An Empirical-Phenomenological Critique of the Social Construction of Infancy (1996/19: 1); Michael Lynch, Silence in Context: Ethnomethodology and Social Theory (1999/22: 2–4); Thomas Luckmann, Moral Communication in Modern Societies (2002/25: 1); Michael Staudigl, Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Violence: Reflections Following Merleau-Ponty and Schutz (2007/30:3); Michael Barber, Somatic Apprehension and Imaginative Abstraction: Cairns’s Criticisms of Schutz’s Criticisms of Husserl’s Fifth Meditation (2010/33: 1); Thomas Eberle, Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Ethnomethodology’s Program (2012/35: 2); Kenneth Liberman, What can the Human Sciences Contribute to Phenomenology? (2017/40: 1).
Noticing this aspect is a good opportunity to thank Stefan Nicolae for his excellent work as “Managing Editor” of Human Studies and also Kevin Aho who served as Book Review Editor (2009–2015), followed by Geoffrey Pfeifer (2015–2020). Starting with 2021 Megan Altman will be the new Book Review Editor of the journal.
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Endreß, M. Personal Memories and Constellations with Regard to Human Studies. Hum Stud 43, 361–368 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-020-09558-z
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