%0 Journal Article
%T Motivation and phenomenological foundation: A Schutzian response to a current dilemma in African
%A Michael Barber
%J Philosophy & Social Criticism
%@ 1461-734X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0191453718808082
%X Two philosophical approaches are prominent in race studies: (1) an interpretive phenomenological method, utilized by Sartre, Fanon and Schutz, that describes how Blacks and non-blacks interpret each other and (2) Marxist methodologies, wielded by Sartre, Fanon and Stephen Ferguson, that investigate the economic structures underpinning race relations. Schutz¡¯s theory of motivation accommodates these often antagonistic approaches. Future-oriented ¡®in-order-to motives¡¯ constitute a domain of lived, subjective meanings, operative in the interpretive interrelations the first method thematizes. Because motives, an ¡®objective category¡¯, include the historical, social-structural factors that the second methodologies focus on, that influence actors ¡®behind their backs¡¯ and that are discoverable to reflective observers. Further, Schutz¡¯s situating of economic science with reference to his phenomenological psychology of the everyday lifeworld permits scientific-type analyses that provisionally omit the freedom of social actors that is, however, recovered in the subjective meaning of everyday actors that some Marxist economic reductionists neglect
%K because motives
%K economic reductionism
%K epistemic objectivity
%K Hegelian dialectic
%K in-order-to motives
%K interpretive phenomenological method
%K lifeworld
%K Marxian class analysis
%K phenomenology and social science
%K subjective meaning of an actor
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0191453718808082