Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology

Renault, Emmanuel

doi:10.1515/jso-2015-0013

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“…Moreover, Stimmung points to a dispositional state of openness for further determination (Bestimmung), both in terms of a self-activating and a foreign-affected attunement. It thus aligns well with a relational and processual ontology (Renault 2016) that emphasizes relationality, process and interactivity over individual states and fixed and stable conditions (Slaby and von Scheve 2019).…”

Section: Epiloguesupporting

confidence: 64%

Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung

Thonhauser

2020

Philosophia

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The last few years have seen increasing research interest in moods and atmospheres. While this trend has been accompanied by growing interest in the history of the word Stimmung in other disciplines, this has not yet been the case within philosophy. Against this background, this paper offers a conceptual history of the word Stimmung, focusing on the period from Kant to Heidegger, as this period is, presumably, less known to researchers working with notions like mood, attunement or atmosphere today. Thus, considering this period might provide conceptual resources not yet considered in current debate. Stimmung has the remarkable feature of encompassing the entire semantic field of mood and atmosphere, insofar as both subjects and objects can literally be in Stimmung. Stimmung might refer to the state or condition of being attuned, which is understood as a dispositional state, as well as the process or act of attuning, which includes self-activating and foreign-determined forms of attuning. The word was first used for the tuning of musical instruments, but was quickly transferred to the fields of aesthetics, psychology, and physiology. This paper will focus on the contrast between the psychological canonization of Stimmung as a type of mental state, and the use of Stimmung as an untranslatable, irreducible metaphor with unique semantic force allowing for original theorizing.

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Section: Epiloguesupporting

confidence: 64%

Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung

Thonhauser

2020

Philosophia

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“…Mead's theory of the self illustrates these themes: 1) the recognitive relation between the selves has just as much reality as the selves; 2) a self is a relation to itself, and this self-relation is connected with other relations to other selves; and 3) a self can be transformed by recognitive interactions just as he can try to transform the frames of recognition in response to problematic situations. In other words, according to Mead, the self should be conceived of neither in substantial terms (the self is not a spiritual substance), nor in static relational terms (the self is not a structure), but in dynamic relational terms, that is in processual terms (Renault 2016b): as internalization of the process of recognition, the self is a process.…”

Section: Naturalism and Recognition As A Structure Of Social Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Specificities and Legacy of the Pragmatism Conception of Recognition

Renault¹

2020

Handbuch Anerkennung

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This article deals with the specificities of the conceptions of recognition by John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, as well as with their legacy in the founders of the Chicago school of sociology (William Thomas, Robert Park and Ernest Burgess), in Erwin Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu and Axel Honneth. The first and introductory part of the article shows that Dewey's and Mead's approaches to recognition are part of a Hegelian deposit in their thinking. The second part focuses on the naturalist, externalist, practice-based and processual dimensions of their conception of recognition. The third part analyzes the implications of their dispositional theory of action and of their impulse-habit psychology. The concluding part contrasts their approaches to recognition with Robert Brandom's neopragmatist approach.

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“…xvii On the social-ontological implications of his naturalistic metaphysics see Dewey 1928/2008, on the socialphilosophical motivation behind his metaphysics see Särkelä 2017b. xviii Closest to something resembling a systematic processual account of the pathologies of social life probably come Renault 2016, Särkelä 2017band Testa 2017. xix Neuhouser 2016…”

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Four conceptions of social pathology

Laitinen

Särkelä

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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Draft. To be published in European Journal of Social Theory.Abstract. This paper starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are "normativist" and hold that something is a social pathology if it is socially wrong. On the first view, there is no encompassing characterization of social pathologies available:it is a cluster concept of family resemblances. On the second view, social pathologies share a structure (e.g. second-order disorder). The last two conceptions are "naturalist" and hold that something is wrong because it is pathological. The third view takes it that society is the kind of substance that can fall ill -an organism. The fourth view operates with the notion of a social life that can degenerate. The four conceptions are compared along six criteria: is the view plausible, is it informative (if true), does it help define the task of social philosophy, does it take naturalistic vocabulary seriously, does it hold that pathologies share a structure, and how does it see the primacy of being wrong and being pathological. Social Philosophy and Social PathologyOur aim in this article is to distinguish more clearly four different usages of "social pathology", whose differences have not always been appreciated in the literature. Indeed, a leading theorist, Axel Honneth, in his different writings seems to subscribe to three of these conceptions we distinguish here. We hope that distinguishing these different conceptions (or families of conceptions) will clarify the debates, and hopefully everyone will find a conception that suits their purposes: the anti-theoretical view will appeal to some, whereas others welcome the theoretical structure the other conceptions provide, and so on. The typology we suggest aims to make sense of the usages especially in social philosophy; other typologies for other purposes can use different classification criteria. i The second aim is to assess comparatively the four different usages, and to argue against some of the views (especially the second-order disorder-view and the organicist view).These aims are relatively independent: even people who disagree with our comparative assessments can hopefully find the classification useful. In this introductory section we will shed light both on

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Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology

Cited by 40 publications

References 10 publications

Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung

Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung

On the Specificities and Legacy of the Pragmatism Conception of Recognition

Four conceptions of social pathology

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