Journal. Private Family Journal of First Trip to the United States of America in 1937
Journal. Private Family Journal of First Trip to the United States of America in 1937

Summary/Abstract: Translated by Evelyn S. Lang This diary belongs to a genre of diaries by prominent European intellectuals who visited the United States, such as Simone de Beauvoir’s Day by Day. Schutz records his impressions of musical concerts and visits to art museums, as well as his encounters with the stock exchange and new forms of technologies and his observation of political discussions about the Roosevelt era. He gives an account of visits with Gerhart Husserl, the son of Edmund Husserl, and colleagues such as Fritz Machlup and Dorion Cairns. In addition, Schutz offers his reactions to American anti-Semitism, the cruel treatment of workers (which may exhibit economic rationality but no other kind of rationality), and the ways in which race seems to affect American social and economic relationships.

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