LEADER 03697nam 2200529 450 001 9910466631303321 005 20200128153955.0 010 $a3-11-061750-1 010 $a3-11-061663-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110617504 035 $a(CKB)4100000007123604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5574836 035 $a(DE-B1597)499253 035 $a(OCoLC)1076478001 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110617504 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5574836 035 $a(OCoLC)1066177792 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007123604 100 $a20200128d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSocial ontology of whoness $erethinking core phenomena of political philosophy /$fMichael Eldred 205 $a3., revised and expanded edition 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (710 pages) 311 $a3-11-061637-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContent -- $tForeword -- $t1. By way of introduction: Precious little -- $t2. Loosening the ground: Thinking about society, thinking society -- $t3. Further outline of the phenomenon of whoness -- $t4. The satisfaction of wants and the striving to have more -- $t5. Ontology of exchange -- $t6. Justice -- $t7. Interlude and recapitulation with some intermediate conclusions: Everyday living of finite human beings - Security and insecurity -- $t8. The short reach of Cartesian certainty and Leibniz' principle of reason into the social science of economics -- $t9. Sociation via reified interplay, the invisible and the visible hand -- $t10. Social power and government -- $t11. The socio-ontological constitution of 'we ourselves' -- $t12. Government and the state -- $t13. Democracy -- $t14. Global whoness and global power plays -- $t15. Bibliography -- $t16. Index 330 $aHow are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos. Such whoness is a clean-cut departure from the venerable tradition of questioning whatness (quidditas, essence) in philosophical thinking. Casting human being hermeneutically as whoness opens up new insights into how human beings sociate in interplays of mutual estimation that are simultaneously social power plays. Hitherto, the ontology of social power in all its various guises, has only ever been implicit. This book makes it explicit. The kind of social power prevalent in capitalist societies is that of the reified value embodied in commodities, money, capital, & co. Reified value itself is constituted through an interplay of mutual estimation among things that reflects back on the power interplay among whos. In this way a new critique of capitalism becomes possible. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 676 $a320.01 700 $aEldred$b Michael$01030459 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466631303321 996 $aSocial ontology of whoness$92474576 997 $aUNINA