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These writings by Alfred Schutz, some in their first English translation, examine the "normative" areas of literature and ethics, addressing the author-reader relationship, multiple realities, the literary province of meaning, and Schutz´s views on equality.

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This book contains texts devoted by Alfred Schutz to the "normative" areas of literature and ethics. It includes writings dealing with the author-reader relationship, multiple realities, the literary province of meaning, and Schutz´s views on equality. Never published in English commentaries on Goethe´s novel and the account of personality in the social world appear in this volume.

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Editorial Introduction by Michael Barber; Life Forms and Meaning Structures; The Problem of Personality in the Social World"; Two Goethe Texts: "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (Wilhelm Meister´s Year of Apprenticeship), and "Zu Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren" (On Wilhelm Meister´s Years of Travel")

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