Social ontology : recasting political philosophy through a phenomenology of whoness / Michael Eldred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eldred, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (704 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of the present inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. We human beings strive to become who we are in an ongoing power interplay with each other. Thinkers called as witnesses include Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Protagoras, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

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 Metaphysics of exchange

6 Justice

7 Interlude 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 Reified social relations, the visible and the invisible hand

10 Social power and government

11 The ontological constitution of 'we ourselves'

12 Government and the state

13 Relations among states and the global power play among peoples

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2014).

ISBN:

9783110333275

3110333279

OCLC:

870589918