Richard Helmut Grathoff (1934–2013) was a phenomenologist and Professor

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in the Department of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

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. Born on August 30, 1934, in

Unna Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, D ...

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, he received his PhD from the

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in 1969 after studying under

Aron Gurwitsch Aron Gurwitsch (russian: Аро́н Гу́рвич; 17 January 1901, Vilnius, Vilna Governorate – 25 June 1973, Zurich) was a Litvak American phenomenologist. Work Gurwitsch wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology ...

Thomas Luckmann Thomas Luckmann (; October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American-Austrian sociologist of German and Slovene origin who taught mainly in Germany. Born in Jesenice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Luckmann studied philosophy and linguistics at the Uni ...

and

Peter L. Berger Peter Ludwig Berger (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theor ...

. Influenced by

Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...

Edmund Husserl , thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations) , thesis1_url = https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:58535/bdef:Book/view , thesis1_year = 1883 , thesis2_title ...

and

Alfred Schutz Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

, his work has included research in the topics of

milieu The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educate ...

and

life-world Lifeworld (or life-world) (german: Lebenswelt) may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together. The concept was popularized by Edmund Husserl, who emphasized its role as the ground o ...

Lebenswelt Lifeworld (or life-world) (german: Lebenswelt) may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together. The concept was popularized by Edmund Husserl, who emphasized its role as the ground o ...

") and contemporary social theory. He died in

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, Germany on November 10, 2013.

Major works

*The Structure of Social Inconsistencies (1970) *Maurice Merleau-Ponty und das Problem der Struktur in den Sozialwissenschaften (coed.) (1976) *The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons (1978) *Alfred Schutz und die Idee des Alltags in den Sozialwissenschaften (coed.) (1979) *Sozialitat und Intersubjektivitat (coed.) (1983) *Alfred Schutz und Aron Gurwitsch: Briefwechsel 1939-1959 (1985) *Philosophers in Exile: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch (1989) *Milieu und Lebenswelt (1989)

References

1934 births 2013 deaths People from Unna German scholars People from the Province of Westphalia The New School alumni Bielefeld University faculty Phenomenologists Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Germany-academic-bio-stub