John Searle´s social ontology seeks for nothing less than the fundamental "structure of human civilization". By trying to reconcile the description of the world by the natural sciences with our self-understanding as free, rational and conscious beings, he points to the core of meaningful social life with its institutions, rules and normative expectations. Searle´s often provocative project of explaining "the exact role of language in the creation, constitution, and maintenance of social reality" manifested in his book "Making the Social World" (2010) and outlined in this volume, is taken on by philosophers and social scientists in a critical encounter. Among the large range of topics discussed in these articles are Searle´s concept of collective intentionality, the status of social facts, the social acceptance of institutions, the magic of speech acts as well as Searle´s excursion into the world of power and human rights. Not least, these reflections help to clarify the sometimes conflict-laden relation of philosophy and social theory.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-3-465-04293-8
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-14293-5
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Recht als Kultur
Volume
15
Language
English
Pages
138
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction. The Birth of Society: A Sacralization of Language? No access Pages 7 - 20 Werner Gephart
The Normative Structure of Human Civilization No access Pages 21 - 32 John R. Searle
Documentality as the Construction of Social Reality No access Pages 33 - 48 Maurizio Ferraris
Facts, Social Facts, and Sociology No access Pages 49 - 68 Markus Gabriel
"Society Consists of Nothing but Individuals" No access Pages 69 - 88 Stephan Zimmermann
John Searle on Power and Human Rights No access Pages 89 - 118 Daniel Witte, Jan Christoph Suntrup
Oxford Philosophy in the 1950s No access Pages 119 - 136 Epilogue. John R. Searle
