Eric S. Chelstrom

Social Phenomenology (eBook, PDF)

Husserl, Intersubjectivity, and Collective Intentionality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Social Phenomenology brings together insights from the tradition of phenomenology and recent discussions of collective intentionality. In doing so, it offers a unique account of how consciousness is formative of the social world. That is, how our thinking things to be so can, in some cases, actually make them so. For instance, that the money one uses day in and day out is worth something is not because of its physical characteristics, but because we accept that those physical traits, printed by the right institutions make it so. The book argues for a position between atomism and collectivism. That is, the book denies there is any such thing as collective consciousness, while also denying the atomic conception of subjects which views subjects as islands unto themselves, free of relation to others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216213635
• Artikelnr.: 74830533

Autorenporträt

Eric Chelstrom served as Visiting Assistant Professor in philosophy at Grand Valley State University from 2009-2012, and currently continues to teach in there and in Grand Rapids area. He completed his doctoral studies in philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York under the direction of Kah Kyung Cho. He has presented at number of international conferences on issues ranging from the ontology of music to social ontology. Dr. Chelstrom's current research includes work on the role of horizon intentionality in Aristotelian friendships, to be published in a forthcoming volume titled Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics; research in the history of phenomenology, including work on the analyses of evil in phenomenology prior to Paul Ricoeur's Symbolism of Evil and on the influence of Adolf Reinach's social ontology on Edith Stein's philosophy; finally, his research is beginning to turn to the implications of a theory of collective intentionality for our understanding of the nature of art, paying specific attention to arguments from Arthur Danto's essay, "The Artworld".

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: That Experience Does Not Motivate a Robust Claim for Collective
Consciousness
Chapter 2: A Metaphysical Critique of the Notion of Collective
Consciousness
Chapter 3: Plural Subjects: Phenomenology and Collective Intentionality
Chapter 4: Responding to Criticisms: Phenomenological Evidence and Horizon
Intentionality
Chapter 5: The Phenomenology of the Social World and Gilbert's Plural
Subject Theory
Chapter 6: Responses to Two Criticisms Motivated by Realist Concerns
Chapter 7: Responding to Sokolowski's Criticism of Husserlian Individualism
Bibliography
About the Author