Social Ontology of Whoness : : Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy / / Michael Eldred.
How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 3., revised and expanded edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 693 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Foreword
- 1. By way of introduction: Precious little
- 2. Loosening the ground: Thinking about society, thinking society
- 3. Further outline of the phenomenon of whoness
- 4. The satisfaction of wants and the striving to have more
- 5. Ontology of exchange
- 6. Justice
- 7. Interlude and recapitulation with some intermediate conclusions: Everyday living of finite human beings – Security and insecurity
- 8. The short reach of Cartesian certainty and Leibniz’ principle of reason into the social science of economics
- 9. Sociation via reified interplay, the invisible and the visible hand
- 10. Social power and government
- 11. The socio-ontological constitution of ‘we ourselves’
- 12. Government and the state
- 13. Democracy
- 14. Global whoness and global power plays
- 15. Bibliography
- 16. Index