Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse
On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences
Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-19253-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-19253-2 (ISBN)
Developing the notion of the ‘social imaginary’ in order to move away from relativistic and ‘objectivist’ notions of truth, this book points to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition, thus exploring the interrelations that exist between the imagineries by which we organise our experience and scientific understanding of the world.
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights the manner in which epistemic communities share, work on and modify not only the world-imaginaries that they endorse, but also those world-views that they reject or which partially overlap with their own. Through the concept of the social imaginary, the author explores the theoretical interrelations among various metaphysical world-imageries by which we organise our scientific understanding of the world and our expectations of experience, thus shedding light on the manner in which social ontology can inform our practices of sharing belief. A study at the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, The Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology and philosophy with interests in questions of ontology and epistemology.
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights the manner in which epistemic communities share, work on and modify not only the world-imaginaries that they endorse, but also those world-views that they reject or which partially overlap with their own. Through the concept of the social imaginary, the author explores the theoretical interrelations among various metaphysical world-imageries by which we organise our scientific understanding of the world and our expectations of experience, thus shedding light on the manner in which social ontology can inform our practices of sharing belief. A study at the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, The Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology and philosophy with interests in questions of ontology and epistemology.
Christoforos Bouzanis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His main research interest lies in the interrelations between philosophy and the social sciences. He has published in journals of social science such as Sociological Theory, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, History of the Human Sciences and Human Studies.
Introduction to the predicament
Language and metaphysics: outline of a radical critique
Realism, anti-realism and the enigmatic status of meta-ontology
De-naturalizing the ontological discourse
Socialising metaphysics
Tracing and reappraising the imaginary
The ontogenetic model of the constitution of social forms
Sociologising metaphysics
Conclusion
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-19253-5 / 0367192535 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-19253-2 / 9780367192532 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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