The Interrelation of Phenomenology, Social Sciences and the Arts

Introduction.- Aesthetics and the Social Sciences.- Irrelevant Spheres and Vacancies of Artworks; Masato Kimura.- Cultural Science in Literary Light; Lester Embree.- Projection, Imagination, and Novelty: Toward a Theory of Creative Action Based in Schutz; Hubert Knoblauch.- Imagination and the Social Sciences; Hisashi Nasu.- Functional Purposelessness: The 'Practical Meaning' of Aesthetics; Hans-Georg Soeffner.- Art as a Paradoxical Form of Communication; Ilja Srubar.- When Sociology Meets the Work of Art: Analytical and Frameworks to Study Artistic Production and Reception; Anna Lisa Tota.- Literature.- Crossing the Finite Provinces of Meaning: Experience and Metaphorizing of Literature and Arts; Gerd Sebald.- Sancho Panza and Don Quijote: The Documentary and the Phenomenological Method of Analyzing Art Works; Amalia Barboza.- Literature as Societal Therapy: Appresentation, Epoché , and Beloved ; Michael Barber.- The Man without Qualities and the Problem of Multiple Realities-Alfred Schutz and Robert Musil Revisited; Martin Endress.- Entangled into Histories or the Narrative Grounds of Multiple Realities; Annette Hilt.- The Universe that Others Call the Library: Reconstructing the Symbolic Mystifications of the World of Everyday Life; Jochen Dreher.- Music.- The Tuning-in Relationship: from a Social Theory of Music towards a Philosophical Understanding of Intersubjectivity; Carlos Belvedere.- Mutual Tuning-In Relationship and Phenomenological Psychology; Chung-Chi Yu.- Music, Meaning, and Sociality: From the Standpoint of a Social Phenomenologist; Andreas Göttlich.- Artistic Practice, Methodology and Subjectivity: The "I Can" As Practical Possibility and Original Consciousness; Andreas Georg Stascheit.- Musical Foundation of Interaction. Music as Intermediary Medium; Mototaka Mori.- Film and Photography.- Interpreting Film: The Case of Casablanca; George Psathas.- A Phenomenological Inquiry of Rashomon ; Ken'ichi Kawano.- The Art of Making Photos: Some Phenomenological Reflections; Thomas S. Eberle.