scholarly journals The Significance of the Issue of Events‘ Identity under Different Descriptions for Social Theory and Social Philosophy

2013 ◽  
pp. 259-262
Author(s):  
Pavel M. Stepantsov
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Philosophy

scholarly journals Affective recognition and social freedom - the psychoanalytic and normative-reconstructive logics of grounding social critique in Axel Honneth’s work

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-434
Author(s):  
Werner Euler
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Individual Recognition ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Normative Concept ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Normative Reconstruction ◽  
Legal Subjects

The task of this paper is the following: how should one explain and solve the theory-immanent tension in Honneth?s recent works, i.e. the tension that reflects the difference between the concept of social freedom (a concept grounded in Hegel?s social philosophy methodologically articulated through normative reconstruction) and the concept of ?affective recognition? (which has replaced the earlier normative concept) - in other words: is there a certain logically-factually grounded path from the question of subjective-individual recognition to the intersubjective recognition of free (legal) subjects in society? My thesis is the fol?lowing: this supposed tension is a pseudo-tension. It loosens up - without completely resolving itself - as soon as we combine the two logics of grounding critique that we find in Honneth. However, unrelated to my claim about the pseudo-nature of the mentioned tension, the psychoanalytic mode of grounding critique is erroneous, since one cannot directly arrive at collective components of society starting from the empirical constellation of individual consciousnesses. The relation between subjective individuality and objective (intersubjective) generality is an objective contradiction (as opposed to a purely theoretical tension). If we still decide to pursue this path of grounding critique, we inadvertently introduce a psychologistic approach into social theory. Such an approach can be found in Honneth?s theory of intersubjective (normative) recognition as well.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Peter E. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Proper Sense ◽  
Religious Theme

Dwelling, in the proper sense, is now impossible. —Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia This book is a meditation on a philosophical and religious theme. In it I explore the problem of secularization, not as a social process, but as a conceptual gesture that appears with some prominence in the writings of three key theorists: Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno. The fact that all three of these writers were affiliates of the Institute for Social Research, the so-called Frankfurt School of social philosophy and cultural criticism, may encourage the impression that they agreed upon a common doctrine, though in fact their differences were often profound. This is especially clear when we examine their distinctive views on secularization, a topic that surely ranks among the more controversial problems in modern social theory. Philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, and historians continue...

scholarly journals Social Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Alexander Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Juergen Habermas ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Interdisciplinary Character ◽  
The Problem Of Evil

The present article considers the problematical nature of social philosophy’s interdisciplinary character. The author considers that we can discover its specification as an independent area of the humanities, with exarticulation of adjacent to social philosophy disciplines like political philosophy, historic sociology and social theory. If it will be done, we will be able as the scientists to prove that social philosophy, which if often considering as the synonymous of social theory, has right to exist. The author comes to conclusion that the most part of social theory supporters try to ignore valuative dimension in “theories” of thinkers they research (Georg Simmel, Hanna Arendt, Juergen Habermas, Zygmunt Bauman). In fact it is а duty of social philosophy which nature is valuative. In author’s point of view, such a trend in theoretical sociology as “cultural sociology,” which use not only explanatory and descriptive methods but also interpretations, reflects the differences between social theory and social philosophy because it emphasizes the cultural dimension of social processes. For example, cultural sociology deals with issues that are more relevant to philosophy than to sociology, in particular, it concerns the problem of evil.

Theology and Social Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines how Bonhoeffer sets up his engagement with social theory. While Bonhoeffer’s initial decisions with respect to social theory have been widely criticized, this chapter demonstrates that these are, in fact, theologically motivated, and are defensible precisely on this basis. This includes Bonhoeffer’s distinction between the disciplines of social philosophy and sociology’, as well as his preference for formal over historical approaches to sociology. This chapter also provides a preliminary outline of how Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory is governed by a theological dialectic or ‘concept of reality’, an understanding of social reality itself as ruptured or fragmented in terms of states of creation, sin, and reconciliation. This is one of the central claims in this monograph: Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory and study of the church are governed by this dialectic.

Politocratic communitarianism, immanentist sociology and sphere sovereignty

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Raath
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Dialectical Tension

Politocratic communitarianism supports the historic revival of ancient Greek notions of social life in opposition to the nominalist trends in modernistic philosophy of society. The need for a penetrating normative philosophy of society from an integral non-dualistic angle to social life is manifest from Danie Goosen's and Koos Malan's pursuit of the neo-Aristotelian philosophical revival of the Greek polis: their formalistic approach to sociology, the dialectical tension between "normativity" and "factuality", and the juxtaposing of the "general" and the "specific" in their approach to social phenomena. In this article the shortcomings of politocratic communitarianism are traced to its immanentist approach to social theory with all the ensuing dialectical tensions emanating from its social philosophy and its views on the role of the state in society.

Returning to the Search for Truth: Once Again on the Status of Contemporary Social Philosophy

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Karen Kh. Momdzhyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Value Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Historical Levels

The author examines the state of modern social philosophy, which has undergone an unprecedented attack of militant anti-scientism on nomotic thinking in social studies and the very search for objective scientific truth. This attack was under­taken by supporters of postmodernism, who sought to reduce the world as an onto­logical reality to the world of meanings, to turn philosophy into an “interpretation of interpretations”, not going beyond language and textual activity. The author is convinced that the transformation of philosophy into a metaphorical essay, indiffer­ent to or hostile to the truth, is completely intolerable in the current situation, when mankind is once again entering an era of unsecured outcomes, requiring adaptively meaningful philosophical reflection. The author states that there is a “fragmenta­tion crisis” in contemporary reflective social philosophy, whose task is to cognize the world rather than its value consciousness. In such a philosophy, there should be gnoseological coercion to the truth, which excludes the equality of alternative in­terpretations of social reality. Nevertheless, in modern reflective philosophy there are the most serious disagreements on the key problems of the study of man, soci­ety and history. The article analyzes the main contradictions arising at social-philo­sophical, general sociological and philosophical-historical levels of abstraction, considers the possibility of the formation of integral social theory, which carries out the conceptual synthesis of mutually compatible ideas and approaches

A Social Perspective on Information Security

2003 ◽  
pp. 249-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Clarke ◽  
Paul Drake
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Initial Framework

Information security has become a largely rule-based domain, substantially focusing on issues of confidentiality. But the standards developed to achieve this, both in the U.S. and in the UK, have not been adopted as widely as had been hoped. By casting information security as a human-centred domain, this chapter, by means of a critique fom a social theoretical perspective, seeks to offer a way forward to a more widely acceptable approach. Social philosophy, social theory, and empirical evidence all suggest a basis in critical social theory as a potential way forward, and an initial framework based on this, is developed within this study. All of this is seen to point toward information security seen as human action, mediated through subjective understanding, and this research is now focusing on the operationalisation of these concepts.

Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Critical Social Theory

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Albertsen
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Service Class ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

The relationship between the transformation of advanced capitalist societies from Fordism to post-Fordism and the simultaneous rise within these societies of postmodern culture is investigated. In art and architecture the exhaustion of high-modernist aesthetic progressivism resulted in a postmodern ‘condition’ of ‘free disposability’ of aesthetic materials which was furthered by societal developments such as the dissolution of the Fordist model of standardized consumption into diversified and aesthetizised consumption, the rise of an experimenting culture industry after the youth revolt of the 1960s, the growth of the service class, and the advent of ‘disposability’ in regard to ways and styles of living. In social philosophy a general delegitimation of the grand narratives of progress and emancipation occurred as ‘high-Fordism’ gave way to stagnating ‘late-Fordism’ and fragmented ‘post-Fordism’. In this process the technocratic–statist narrative of Fordism itself and the labor utopia of the industrial working class lost credibility, without any emergence of convincing utopian or grand reformist alternatives. The spatial (global–local) aspects of these transformations are emphasized and the paper concludes with some left-critical considerations which stress the democratic potential of postmodernism and its openness towards local alliances protective against the powers of global capitals and centralized states.

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