Overview
- The first book to examine the topic of “being bound" from both a philosophical and a sociological perspective
- A relevant contribution to the contemporary studies on practical normativity
- Brings together a group of philosophers and sociologists who are leading figures in their respective fields
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 39)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Normativity and Social Bonds from Kant to Heidegger
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Front Matter
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Social Bonds in Realist and Relational Sociology
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly defined by those bonds, regardless of whether we live up to them – or even of whether we acknowledge them. Puzzling questions arise from the fact that we are bound, such as: How are those bonds binding? Wherein lies their normative character? A venerable philosophical tradition, particularly since Kant, has provided an account of normativity that crucially appeals to such notions as “self-legislation.” But can our normative bonds be properly understood in these essentially first-personal terms? Many argue that our social condition resists any account of those bonds that fails to acknowledge the perspectives of the second and the third person.
The first part of the book explores these themes from a historical perspective in the tradition of transcendental philosophy (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger); it examines the phenomenon of “being bound”, i.e., why and how we are bound. The second part of the book offers a sociological analysis of social bonds that is both historical and systematic. Based on sociological approaches to “solidarity” and “reflexivity”, it explores the way in which the phenomenon of “being bound” manifests through the concept of a “social relation”.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alejandro Néstor García Martínez, Ph.D. in Philosophy, developed his research in Sociology, Social Theory, and Theory of Organizations. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Fashion and Social Distinction (2007), Natural Law: Historical, Systematic and Juridical Approaches (with J.M. Torralba – M.Silar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008), the edition of the monographic issue of Anuario Filosófico on “Consumption and Identity” (2010), and Being Human in a Consumer Society (Ashgate, 2015).
José M. Torralba is a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Navarra. He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Chicago and Leipzig. He is the co-editor of Natural Law: Historical, Systematic and Juridical Approaches (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), Theories of Action and Morality. Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Sciences (Olms), and Literature and Character Education in Universities. Theory, Method, and Text Analysis (Routledge).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ways of Being Bound: Perspectives from post-Kantian Philosophy and Relational Sociology
Editors: Patricio A. Fernández, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez, José M. Torralba
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11469-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11468-7Published: 02 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11471-7Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11469-4Published: 01 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 246
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences