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The article presents responses of the author on his books published in the 1985 issue of the journal "Human Studies." He holds that both scholarly and biographically significant point behind his work A Bergsonian Bridge to Phenomenological Psychology is the following, in 1924, before starting this endeavor, sociologist Alfred Schutz had looked at sociologist Edmund Husserl's early phenomenological writings but found that they had nothing to contribute to what he had planned to do namely, to give Max Weber's sociology of understanding a pheno-psychological underpinning which, in his opinion, they needed in order not only to be made consistent but also in order to provide them with a justification deeper than that which could be provided by sociological reasoning. The author confesses that his book Phenomenology of Consciousness and Sociology of the Life-World is his favorite. He agrees with his critics who have pointed out the book does not cover, or at least does not emphasize evenly all topics which should be treated in an advanced and reasonably sophisticated introduction to the areas of its thematic concerns.

The article presents a biography of Ilse Schutz, widow of sociologist Alfred Schutz, who died in New York on June 7, 1990. Ilse is survived by her brother Eric, her children Evelyn and George, and her granddaughter Claudia. Ilse was an elegant Austrian lady. Ilse was so modest that one can doubt she was seriously aware of her own accomplishments, which are conspicuous in even the briefest review of life. The routine worlds in Vienna, Austria and New York were typical for a woman of Ilse's society, class, and era. Ilse's husband died in the year 1959, after an almost two-year illness during which Schutz could no more than outline a final full statement of his philosophical position. She also played an important role in publication of Alfred Schutz's literature. Immediately, Ilse set out to master the financial situation, which was conducted thereafter quite well. Soon Ilse arranged for a second edition of "Der sinnhafte Aufbau" in Vienna, where it had been unavailable since arrival of Nazis. Negotiations with a vanity publisher had been begun by Schutz for a volume of reprinted essays and it was agreed with Schutz to edit it, but Ilse decided upon someone else as the publisher instead and that was only a beginning. There was a great deal more to be brought out in the world of publishing and editing by Ilse Schutz.

The article presents a discussion on sociologist Helmut Wagner's intellectual biography of sociologist Alfred Schutz. Wagner chose to relate his own work to the life, recommendations and accomplishments of Alfred Schutz. Wagner had on several occasions written about Schutz, translated his works and interpreted his importance for the general reader and the philosopher, as well as the sociological specialist. Wagner's pursuit in this direction has been climaxed by the publication of Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biograph. Wagner held that the biography of Schutz was relevant for the comprehension of his scholarly life work. An intellectual biography, however, as Wagner sees it, differs from most other life stories. Wagner not only summarizes but explores the possible sources of these ideas, their development and influences on Schutz's contemporaries. Wagner held that the intellectual biography was not meant to convey a picture of Alfred Schutz the human being, in the richness and generosity of his personality.

The article presents the biography of author Ronald J. Silvers, as a researcher and an adult in the study of children in an elementary school setting. It is a search which commences in silence, in an effort to understand and communicate with young children about their play activities. As a reflective inquiry framed by existentialism and phenomenology it is an attempt to contend with and surpass this silence, even when there is no interpretive realm that may be shared with children. As an inquiry in the human sciences, the article focuses on the question, when all are outside the realm of another's meaning of symbols and the significance of their commitments, when one's own language and sentiments fail to provide a basis for understanding speech and projects, how does one begin to reach new forms of meaning from one culture to others. The article is composed of two parts. The first, a biographical narrative, contains Silvers' experiences of and reflections upon silence and the search to communicatively transcend silence. The second part of the article, a statement of the praxis of research in the study, is an effort to reflectively recover the analytical practices which are present in the biographical narrative.

The article presents a biography of sociologist Helmut R. Wagner, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Hobart and William Smith College in South Dennis, Massachusetts, who died on April 22, 1989. Wagner was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 where he received his education culminating in graduation from a four year technical college which included studies in the social sciences. From 1925 till 1932, Wagner was an adult education teacher in Thuringia. An outspoken critic of Nazi tyranny. Wagner was declared an enemy of the state, deprived of his citizenship, and forced to leave Germany, in 1934. The first place of exile was in Switzerland, where Wagner engaged in studies in the social sciences and also was employed in a technical capacity by the Swiss armed forces. Wagner's interest in sociology was awakened by his reading of the work of Max Weber. While impressed by Weber's large scale socio-historical studies about the rise of capitalism, Wagner was influenced by Weber's insistence on the importance of interpreting social action from a subjective standpoint. Later he accepted Alfred Schutz's reinterpretation and deepening of Weber's micro-sociology and joined him in efforts to give sociology a consistently subjective foundation. During the past twenty eight years, Wagner dedicated his great talent and energy to the comprehension of Schutz' thinking. Wagner was a consummate researcher, a meticulously careful writer, and a person dedicated to the scholarly life. His knowledge of phenomenology and his background in the German intellectual tradition made him uniquely qualified to become the premiere custodian of the Alfred Schutz legacy.