Derek Robbins is Emeritus Professor of International Social Theory at the University of East London

Introduction
Part I: Origins
1 Schutz in Vienna, 1900 to 1938
2 Gurwitsch in Germany and France, 1900 to 1938
3 Schutz and Gurwitsch in America, 1940-1980
4 Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Part II: Pierre Bourdieu: Evolution of an intellectual social project
5 The 1950s
6 The 1960s
7 The 1970s
8 The 1980s
9 The 1990s
Postscript
Index

The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu's sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action.