Simon Lafontaine
Biographic Data
| ID | 262864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Lafontaine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafontaine |
| SIGNATURE | LAFONTAINE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4466-0628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Schütz on self-alienation and homecoming in a warring world
Alfred Schütz, who joined the Austrian army at 17 years old as a lieutenant in 1917, faced traumatic experiences during the First World War that deeply influenced his later intellectual pursuits. This article examines how Schütz's wartime and postwar experiences shaped his intellectual and political contribution to sociology. The trauma Schütz faced during and after the war profoundly influenced his views on the ethical competence and integrative…
Adventure in the social world
Reconstructing the logic of everyday action between reproduction and invention of forms is a growing concern in contemporary debates on the praxeological foundation of sociology. This article argues for a renewed understanding of action in its contingency and creativity. Building on current developments on the role of projectivity and imagination in the emergence of the new and unexpected in action, it turns to Simmel's undervalued essay 'The Adv…
Ideal Potentials in Action
The View of Life is still under-studied despite its status as capstone to Simmel’s work. Departing from Simmel’s image as an unsystematic flâneur or bricoleur, I assess the affinity of his late theory of life forms with Schutz’s analysis of human action in three steps: First, as a common concern with the clarification of foundational problems that coincide with interpretive sociology’s basic idea of tracing back all cultural objectivations to the…
The Significance of Mobility in Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Action
L’étrangeté du familier
La sociologie d’Alfred Schütz a le potentiel de saisir la complexité des rapports entre familiarité et étrangeté qui se tissent dans le quotidien des sociétés contemporaines. Néanmoins, ses analyses de la venue d’un étranger au sein d’un groupe, qu’on retrouve dans son fameux essai « L’étranger », rencontrent des difficultés appelant une reconstruction critique. Une relecture de ses thèses de fond sur la typification sociale et la connaissance fa…
L’étrangeté du familier
La sociologie d’Alfred Schütz a le potentiel de saisir la complexité des rapports entre familiarité et étrangeté qui se tissent dans le quotidien des sociétés contemporaines. Néanmoins, ses analyses de la venue d’un étranger au sein d’un groupe, qu’on retrouve dans son fameux essai « L’étranger », rencontrent des difficultés appelant une reconstruction critique. Une relecture de ses thèses de fond sur la typification sociale et la connaissance fa…
Adventure in the social world
Reconstructing the logic of everyday action between reproduction and invention of forms is a growing concern in contemporary debates on the praxeological foundation of sociology. This article argues for a renewed understanding of action in its contingency and creativity. Building on current developments on the role of projectivity and imagination in the emergence of the new and unexpected in action, it turns to Simmel's undervalued essay 'The Adv…
The Significance of Mobility in Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Action
L’étrangeté du familier
La sociologie d’Alfred Schütz a le potentiel de saisir la complexité des rapports entre familiarité et étrangeté qui se tissent dans le quotidien des sociétés contemporaines. Néanmoins, ses analyses de la venue d’un étranger au sein d’un groupe, qu’on retrouve dans son fameux essai « L’étranger », rencontrent des difficultés appelant une reconstruction critique. Une relecture de ses thèses de fond sur la typification sociale et la connaissance fa…
The Significance of Mobility in Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Action
Ideal Potentials in Action
The View of Life is still under-studied despite its status as capstone to Simmel’s work. Departing from Simmel’s image as an unsystematic flâneur or bricoleur, I assess the affinity of his late theory of life forms with Schutz’s analysis of human action in three steps: First, as a common concern with the clarification of foundational problems that coincide with interpretive sociology’s basic idea of tracing back all cultural objectivations to the…
Schütz on self-alienation and homecoming in a warring world
Alfred Schütz, who joined the Austrian army at 17 years old as a lieutenant in 1917, faced traumatic experiences during the First World War that deeply influenced his later intellectual pursuits. This article examines how Schütz's wartime and postwar experiences shaped his intellectual and political contribution to sociology. The trauma Schütz faced during and after the war profoundly influenced his views on the ethical competence and integrative…
Adventure in the social world
Reconstructing the logic of everyday action between reproduction and invention of forms is a growing concern in contemporary debates on the praxeological foundation of sociology. This article argues for a renewed understanding of action in its contingency and creativity. Building on current developments on the role of projectivity and imagination in the emergence of the new and unexpected in action, it turns to Simmel's undervalued essay 'The Adv…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (2 works) · German Social Sciences and History (2 works)