Overview
- Opens Heideggers concepts of human existence and authenticity for discussion and application in social theory and change
- Contextualizes Heideggers theories within the works of other major philosophers
- Presents original ideas on the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger from several leading scholars and experts
Part of the book series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality (SIPS, volume 10)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Interpreting the Anyone
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Contextualizing the Anyone
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 argues that Heidegger’s anyone should neither be reduced to its pejorative nor its constitutive dimension. Rather, the concept could show how power and norms function.
This volume would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and the social sciences who wish to investigate the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gerhard Thonhauser studied philosophy and political science at the University of Vienna and Copenhagen University. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2015. He was the recipient of a DOC-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011-2012. His mainresearch interests are Phenomenology, Existential Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Social Ontology. He is the author of Über das Konzept der Zeitlichkeit bei Søren Kierkegaard mit ständigem Hinblick auf Martin Heidegger (2011) and Ein rätselhaftes Zeichen. Zum Verhältnis von Martin Heidegger und Søren Kierkegaard (2016), and the editor of Perspektiven mit Heidegger (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity
Book Subtitle: Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory
Editors: Hans Bernhard Schmid, Gerhard Thonhauser
Series Title: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56864-5Published: 29 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86021-3Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56865-2Published: 10 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2542-9094
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9108
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 278
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociological Theory, Phenomenology, Sociology of Culture