Approaches to the World

Prof. Dr. Gesa Lindemann

doi:10.5771/9783748922124

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Responding to the critique of methodological ethnocentrism, Lindemann develops a new general social theory that is also highly sensitive to socio-cultural differences. Drawing on Helmuth Plessner’s theory of excentric positionality, social order is understood as a symbolically and technically mediated spatio-temporal order that is integrated by an order of violence. Lindemann hereby brings together three significant aspects of recent debates: the debates on the necessity of a theoretical turn (such as the linguistic turn, the material turn, the body turn, the pictorial turn and the spatial turn); second, the debates on the actor status of non-humans and the borders of the social world, and third, the discussions about the role of violence in structuring social processes.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-7808-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-2212-4
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 350
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
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1. The current state of the discussion
2. An expanded social theory
3. The structure of this book
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1. 1.1 Introduction to the discursive context
2. 1.2 The expanded problem of order
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1. 1. 1. Emancipatory cognitive interest
2. 1. 2.2.1 The expanded problem of order as consequence of the broadening of understanding
  2. 2.2.2 Effectivity and action as polar opposites
3. 1. 2.3.1 The transcendental constitution of the alter ego
  2. 1. Reduction to functioning, embodied consciousness
    2. Functioning consciousness and the other I
4. 1. 2.4.1 Historicizing the matrix of modernity
  2. 1. The principle of the closed question
    2. The principle of the open question
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1. 3.1 Dimensions of the social ordering system
2. 3.2 Types of order formation
3. 1. 3.3.1 The method of theory construction
  2. 3.3.2 The boundary realization of bodies
  3. 3.3.3 Centric positionality
  4. 3.3.4 Excentric positionality and the shared world: the social undecidedness relation
  5. 3.3.5 Ordering problems of excentric positionality
  6. 3.3.6 Historical shared worlds as determinations of the social undecidedness relation
  7. 3.3.7 Forming the lived body and its boundaries
  8. 3.3.8 Communicating boundary realization
  9. 3.3.9 The mediated immediacy of order formation
  10. 3.3.10 The problem of sociologism
  11. 3.3.11 Digression on the social undecidedness relation and social theory
4. 1. 1. Modal time
    2. Modal time – centric positionality
    3. The spatiotemporal structure of touch
    4. The time-space of excentric embodied selves
    5. Space
    6. Variable centering
    7. Local space
    8. Digital space
    9. Time
    10. Modal time
    11. Duration as chaotic multiplicity
    12. The duration of the individual person
    13. Shared duration
    14. The duration of things
    15. The duration of structures of expectation
    16. Before/after sequencing – digital time
  2. 1. Space-time structures of determining the social undecidedness relation
5. 1. 3.5.1 Centric positionality
  2. 1. Institutionalized composite acts
    2. Technology as communicative proposal of meaning
    3. Complex composite acts I
    4. Digital spacetime as a medium of construction for advanced artifacts
    5. Principles of technical construction
6. 1. 1. The structure of reflexivity
    2. Symbols with identical meaning
    3. Symbol formation under conditions of expanded world-openness
    4. A renewed use theory of meaning
  2. 1. Institutions and mediating institutions
    2. Institutions
    3. Complex composite acts II
    4. Reflexive institutions
    5. Excursus: The function of success media in Parsons and Luhmann’s theory of society
    6. Reflexive institutions of beginning and participation
    7. Reflexive institutions and the creation of social forms of mediation: organizations and networks
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1. 4.1 Violence or the physical exertion of force
2. 4.2 Violence in social science theories
3. 1. 4.3.1 The mediated immediacy of violence
  2. 1. Excursus on the dispensability of symbiotic mechanisms
    2. The sociological dimension of Derrida’s critique of Benjamin
    3. Perpetrators – victims – thirds
    4. Diabolical symbolization – the boundaries of violence
4. 1. 4.4.1 Violence and procedure
  2. 4.4.2 The procedural order of the sacrificial victim
  3. 4.4.3 The procedural order of compensation
  4. 4.4.4 The procedural order of the judicial system
  5. 4.4.5 The procedural order of the non-violent representation of law
  6. 4.4.6 Methodological implications of a reflexive concept of violence
5. Summary
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1. 1. 1. Individualization as a degenerate form
2. 1. 5.2.1 Dia-Symbolon
  2. 5.2.2 Space and time
  3. 5.2.3 Differentiation of universes of meaning
3. 5.3 Body individualism in contingent multi-sociation
4. 5.4 The reflexive relationship between social theory and a theory of society
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Subject indexPages 345 - 350 Download chapter (PDF)