Problems of a Sociology of Language (Fall Semester, 1958)
Problems of a Sociology of Language (Fall Semester, 1958)

Summary/Abstract: Edited by Fred Kersten With an Introduction by Lester Embree and Fred Kersten This document was originally to consist of Embree’s editing of notes by Werner Cohen and Helmut Wagner from this course as it was delivered in 1952. That result has now been deposited in the Sozialwissenschafts Archiv, Universität Konstanz, the archival repository of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. at the University of Memphis, and the Waseda Daigaku Schutz Bunko at Waseda University. When the effort was first undertaken, Kersten was of course contacted for his notes, but he could only find part of them and what he could find were too schematic for Embree to use. Subsequently, however, Kersten found the rest of his notes and was persuaded to reconstruct the version published below. Greatly aided by Kersten’s memory, this version is one stage closer to the original expression than Embree’s reconstruction of the notes of Cohen and Wagner. Furthermore, the course represents Schutz’s final thinking about language. The first part of the following introduction is by Embree. The second part is by Kersten. We thank Werner Cohen and Helmut Wagner and also Richard Lanigan and Beth Singer for their help when this project was originally begun years ago. Ted Toadvine, John Drabinski, and Samuel J. Julian are thanked for help with the editing. Evelyn Schutz Lang is thanked for permission to publish these thoughts of her father. The remaining deficiencies are, of course, our responsibility.

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