Articulated experiences : toward a radical phenomenology of contemporary social movements / Peyman Vahabzadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahabzadeh, Peyman.

Series:

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By reexamining the very foundations of everyday acting and thinking and stepping into the open expanse of a possible transition to a postmodern era, this book presents a radical phenomenological approach to the study of contemporary social movements. It offers a theory of acting that refuses to surrender to norms and legislations and thus always intimates a mode of thinking that challenges various manifestations of ultimacy. Vahabzadeh invites us to radically rethink many basic principles that inform our lives, such as the democratic discourse, the concept of rights, liberal democratic regimes, time and epochs, oppression, acting, and the practice of sociology, in an effort to instate a reworked concept of experience in theories about social movements.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

What Can New Social Movements Tell About Post-Modernity?

Identity and Contemporary Social Movements

Identity, Experiential Hegemonies, Urstiftung

Articulated Experiences: The Epochal (Trans-)Formations of Identities and Social Movement

Technological Liberalism and the Oppressive Categorization of “Transgressive” Actor

An Epochal Theory of Action

Radical Phenomenology and the Sociology of Possibilities

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780791487402

0791487407

9781417520381

1417520388

OCLC:

61367641