The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory

Introduction.- Part I General Considerations on Macrophenomenology.- Macro Strata of the Social World: Institutions, Social Classes, and the State.- Macro-social Awareness in Everyday Life: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Society.- Part II Phenomenology and Politics.- Democracy as a Way of Being in the World: Responsivity as the Essence of the Common Good.- Phenomenology of Power: Reflections on Social Construction and Subjective Constitution.- Understanding Opinions: A Phenomenological Analysis.- Part III Phenomenology of Organizations and Institutions.- Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations.- Institutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity.- The Durable Dimensions of Social Institutions: A Generative Phenomenological Approach.- Part IV Phenomenology of Culture.- Cultural Integration: A Macrophenomenological Analysis.- Cultural Objects with or Without Cultural Difference?.- Part V Phenomenology of History.- Husserl's Views on Levels of History with Their Modesof Rationality, Self-Preservation, and Types of Social Organization.- History as Macro-phenomenon: Heidegger and Gadamer.- Dialectics and Contingency: Merleau-Ponty and the Historical Network.- Part VI Collective Personalities and Agency.- Supra-personal Agency: A Husserlian Approach to the Problem of Individual Responsibility in Relation to Collective Agency and Social Normativity.- Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz on Collective Personalities.- The Place of Imagination in the Sociology of Action: An Essay Drawing from Schutz.- Part VII Phenomenology of Digitalization.- The (Dis-)Entanglement of Knowledge and Experience in a Datafied Life-World.- The "Waste Land" of the Digitalized Life-World: Alfred Schutz's Contribution to a Theory of Digitalized Societies.- Part VIII Social Classes and Sociomaterial Structures.- Doing Phenomenology on Social Classes: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and Possibilities.- Depragmatized Knowledge and Sociomaterial Structures: Illustration from Economics as a Province of Special Knowledge.