Lebenswelt origins of the sciences

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Editor’s Note: In 2004 Harold Garfinkel was invited to present the annual Schutz Memorial Lecture at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) in October in Memphis, Tennessee. The Lecture is co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Association the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and SPHS. Hospitalized in an automobile accident, he was unable to attend the meetings and present his paper in person. Garfinkel arranged to have two of his colleagues and former students, Ken Liberman and D. Lawrence Wieder, select passages that interested them from his longer manuscript and give the presentation. One of their manuscripts is presented here as an Introduction to the larger work. …