Approaches to the World : The Multiple Dimensions of the Social.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindemann, Gesa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2021

Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Responding to the critique of methodological ethnocentrism, Lindemann develops a new general social theory that is also highly sensitive to socio-cultural differences. Drawing on Helmuth Plessner’s theory of excentric positionality, social order is understood as a symbolically and technically mediated spatio-temporal order that is integrated by an order of violence. Lindemann hereby brings together three significant aspects of recent debates: the debates on the necessity of a theoretical turn (such as the linguistic turn, the material turn, the body turn, the pictorial turn and the spatial turn); second, the debates on the actor status of non-humans and the borders of the social world, and third, the discussions about the role of violence in structuring social processes. Als Antwort auf die Kritik des methodologischen Ethnozentrismus entwickelt Lindemann eine neue allgemeinen Sozialtheorie, die sozio-kulturelle Differenzen detailliert zu analysieren vermag. Soziale Ordnung wird dabei als eine symbolisch vermittelte, raum-zeitlich verfasste Ordnung verstanden, die durch eine Ordnung der Gewalt integriert wird. Mit diesem Ansatz verbindet Lindemann drei relevante Diskursstränge der letzten Jahrzehnten: Erstens, die Debatten um die Notwendigkeit theoretischer Neuorientierungen, wie den linguistic turn, den body und spatial turn usw., zweitens, die Debatten um den Status nichtmenschlicher Akteure bzw. um die Grenzen der Sozialwelt sowie drittens, die Debatten um die Bedeutung von Gewalt für soziale Ordnungsbildung.

Contents:

Cover

Introduction

The current state of the discussion

An expanded social theory

The structure of this book

1. The Nature/Culture Distinction in the Explanation-Understanding Controversy

1.1 Introduction to the discursive context

1.2 The expanded problem of order

2. A Critique of Ordering Power

2.1 The transcendental-pragmatic critique of the nature/culture distinction

Emancipatory cognitive interest

2.2 The expanded problem of order in science and technology studies

2.2.1 The expanded problem of order as consequence of the broadening of understanding

2.2.2 Effectivity and action as polar opposites

2.3 Defining the capacity for order

2.3.1 The transcendental constitution of the alter ego

2.3.2 Functioning, embodied consciousness as universal ordering schema

Reduction to functioning, embodied consciousness

Functioning consciousness and the other I

2.4 Ordering power as an open question

2.4.1 Historicizing the matrix of modernity

2.4.2 Expanded understanding

The principle of the closed question

The principle of the open question

3. An Operational Theory of Reflexive Multidimensional Order Formation

3.1 Dimensions of the social ordering system

3.2 Types of order formation

3.3 The social dimension

3.3.1 The method of theory construction

3.3.2 The boundary realization of bodies

3.3.3 Centric positionality

3.3.4 Excentric positionality and the shared world: the social undecidedness relation

3.3.5 Ordering problems of excentric positionality

3.3.6 Historical shared worlds as determinations of the social undecidedness relation

3.3.7 Forming the lived body and its boundaries

3.3.8 Communicating boundary realization

3.3.9 The mediated immediacy of order formation

3.3.10 The problem of sociologism.

3.3.11 Digression on the social undecidedness relation and social theory

3.4 Space and time under conditions of expanded world-openness

3.4.1 Positioning oneself in space and time

Modal time

Modal time - centric positionality

The spatiotemporal structure of touch

The time-space of excentric embodied selves

Space

Variable centering

Local space

Digital space

Time

Duration as chaotic multiplicity

The duration of the individual person

Shared duration

The duration of things

The duration of structures of expectation

Before/after sequencing - digital time

3.4.2 The significance of space and time for the structure of the social dimension

Space-time structures of determining the social undecidedness relation

3.5 The substantive dimension: the lived body and technology

3.5.1 Centric positionality

3.5.2 Excentric positionality

Institutionalized composite acts

Technology as communicative proposal of meaning

Complex composite acts I

Digital spacetime as a medium of construction for advanced artifacts

Principles of technical construction

3.6 Symbol formation and institutionalization under conditions of expanded world-openness

3.6.1 Symbol formation

The structure of reflexivity

Symbols with identical meaning

Symbol formation under conditions of expanded world-openness

A renewed use theory of meaning

3.6.2 Reflexive institutionalization

Institutions and mediating institutions

Institutions

Complex composite acts II

Reflexive institutions

Excursus: The function of success media in Parsons and Luhmann's theory of society

Reflexive institutions of beginning and participation

Reflexive institutions and the creation of social forms of mediation: organizations and networks

4. Violence and Legitimacy.

4.1 Violence or the physical exertion of force

4.2 Violence in social science theories

4.3 The mediated immediacy of symbolic violent communication

4.3.1 The mediated immediacy of violence

4.3.2 Violence as embodied act and its symbolic generalization

Excursus on the dispensability of symbiotic mechanisms

The sociological dimension of Derrida's critique of Benjamin

Perpetrators - victims - thirds

Diabolical symbolization - the boundaries of violence

4.4 Procedural orders of violence

4.4.1 Violence and procedure

4.4.2 The procedural order of the sacrificial victim

4.4.3 The procedural order of compensation

4.4.4 The procedural order of the judicial system

4.4.5 The procedural order of the non-violent representation of law

4.4.6 Methodological implications of a reflexive concept of violence

Summary

5. The Reflexive Formation of Order in Approaches to the World

5.1 Dividualizing sociation

Individualization as a degenerate form

5.2 Soul individualism

5.2.1 Dia-Symbolon

5.2.2 Space and time

5.2.3 Differentiation of universes of meaning

5.3 Body individualism in contingent multi-sociation

5.4 The reflexive relationship between social theory and a theory of society

Bibliography

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1228648434

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access