Intersubjectivity as a Fact of the Lifeworld. A Systematic Reconstruction of Alfred Schütz’s Critique of Husserl’s “Fifth Cartesian Meditation”

The hypothesis underlying the reconstruction set forth in the article is that Schütz's objections to Husserl's canonical text are of two types: immanent and fundamental. The former underline the difficulties inherent to Husserl's steps in trying to solve the problem of transcendental intersubjectivity, while the latter question the philosophical pertinence of the issue itself.