The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory

This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach, especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz, can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state, history, culture and interculturality, class relations and struggles, social movements and protests, capitalism, democracy, and digitalization processes. It gathers systematically and intellectual-historically oriented chapters that deal with these macro social phenomena from a phenomenological perspective. This handbook is mainly intended for a threefold audience: sociologists and social scientists at large – both theoretically and empirically oriented –, phenomenological sociologists, and phenomenological philosophers. This book includes chapters by international renowned specialists in social theory, phenomenological sociology, and phenomenology: Hartmut Rosa (University of Jena), Michael Barber (St. Louis University), Thomas Eberle (University of St. Gallen), Roberto Walton (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jochen Dreher (University of Konstanz), Chung-Chi YU (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), and George Bondor (AI.I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), among others. Carlos Belvedere is Principal Researcher at the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET); Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. He has authored several books and papers in the field of social phenomenology. He serves as associate editor in the journal Schutzian Research and as editorial board member of the journal Human Studies. He was co-chair of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science. Alexis Gros is Researcher at both the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). He is also a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has authored several papers on phenomenology, social theory, and Critical Theory. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2019 to 2021. In 2020, he was awarded the Ilse Schutz Memorial Prize of The Alfred Schutz Circle for Interpretive Social Science. He is member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and is currently co-chair of the Contemporary Critical Theory Studies Group (GEteCC) at the University of Buenos Aires.