Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest : : Interpreting the Technicity of Action / / Ernst Wolff.
Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 296 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Technical Dimension of Action
- Part 1: The Technicity of Action: Capabilities and Means
- Chapter 1: The Effectiveness of Symbols: Mediology and Hermeneutics
- Chapter 2: Habitus - Means - Worldliness
- Chapter 3: Human Capabilities in the Light of Incapabilities
- Chapter 4: Organized Action: Agency, (In)capabilities and Means
- Chapter 5: The Hermeneutics of Human Capabilities and the Theory of Structuration
- Intermediate Reflection: Tools for Critique
- Part 2: Finding Compromises in Practice
- Chapter 6: Of What Is "Ricoeur" the Name? Or, Philosophising at the Edge
- Chapter 7: Acts of Violence as Political Competence? From Ricoeur to Mandela and Back
- Chapter 8: Justice Despite Institutions. Struggling for a Good Life from the Destitute Edge of Society
- Conclusion
- An Integrated View of the Technicity of Action and the Question of Responsibility
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index