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Full Title
SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
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Publisher
FrancoAngeli
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ISSN
1121-1148 (Printed Journal)
1971-8446 (Online Journal)
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Journal Issue Number
124
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Journal Issue Designation
124
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Journal Issue Date
2021
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Full Title
Topic relevance as the basic structuration of the field of consciousness
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First Page
37
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Last Page
51
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Language of text
English
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Publication Date
2021/05
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Copyright
2021 FrancoAngeli srl
Introduction or preface
My aim is to depict Schutz's theory of topic relevance as his own distinctive phenomenology of consciousness. I will show that his conception of consciousness is elaborated from at least three types of elements. First, I will disclose Husserl's influence on Schutz in this matter. I will list a few Husserlian terms that Schutz takes into consideration such as noema, horizon, parts and wholes, attentional ray and passive synthesis. Second, I will show that Schutz turns to Gurwitsch's idea that consciousness is a field of experience where the previously listed elements are held together and find their relational meaning. Third, I will expose how all these elements taken from Husserl and Gurwitsch are reinterpreted by Schutz as being relative to relevance as a basic phenomenon of our mind's selective activity which puts at work different levels of our personality according to the schizophrenic ego hypothesis.
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