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From conventionalism to social authenticity
Heidegger's anyone and contemporary social theory
Abstract
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.
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a new interpretation
pp.29-52
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_3pp.53-78
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_4Heidegger and Foucault on the sources of social normativity
pp.79-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_5Foucault on docility and optimality
pp.101-114
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_6everydayness and authenticity in context – reading Heidegger with Hegel and Diderot
pp.115-132
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_7from Heidegger's "anyone" to Arendt's "common sense" and back again
pp.133-156
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_8Heidegger's das Man and Arendt's acting in concert
pp.157-178
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_9the ambivalence of production as a chance of action between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt
pp.179-197
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_10towards a Heideggerian analysis of social change
pp.219-240
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_12a Butlerian reading of Heidegger on social change?
pp.241-259
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_13a political solution to an existential paradox
pp.261-274
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_14Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2017
Pages: 278
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-56864-5
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-56865-2
Full citation:
Schmid Hans Bernhard, Thonhauser Gerhard (2017) From conventionalism to social authenticity: Heidegger's anyone and contemporary social theory. Dordrecht, Springer.