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This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger s account of the anyone is ambiguous. S...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality,
10 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2 |
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This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger s account of the anyone is ambiguous. Some see it as a good description of human sociality, others think of it as an important critique of modern mass society. This volume seeks to understand this ambiguity as reflecting the tension between the constitutive function of conventions for human action and the critical aspects of conformism. It |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(VI,278pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319568652 |
| Index Number: | B63 |
| CLC: | C0 |
| Contents: | 1. Who is the Self of Everyday Existence? (Mark Wrathall) -- 2. Das Man and Everydayness: A New Interpretation (Charlotte Knowles) -- 3. Heidegger s Underdeveloped Conception of the Undistinguishedness (Indifferenz) of Everyday Human Existence (Jo-Jo Koo) -- 4. The Status of Division One of Being and Time and the Sources of Authenticity (Gerhard Thonhauser) -- 5. Becoming Accountable But for What? The Importance of Authenticity and the Unavoidability of Theory (Tobias Keiling) -- 6. Unobtrusive Governance: Heidegger and Foucault on the Sources of Social Normativity ( Andreas Beinsteiner) -- |