This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. Life Forms and Meaning Structure; Meaning Structures of Language; Meaning Structures of Literary Art Forms; Meaning Structures of Drama and Opera. Originally published in 1987.
"...what makes "Life Forms and Meaning Structure" of a particular interest for a phenomenologist, besides all the other points, is to see why and how Schutz displays dissatisfaction with, up to those days available, phenomenological analyses and how Schutz would progress with an alternative (but not necessarily incompatible) path."
Mohammad Shafiei, Phenomenological Reviews