
Approaches to the World
The Multiple Dimensions of the Social
Gesa Lindemann(Author)
Nomos (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-3-8487-7808-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Baden-Baden
Germany
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 15.3 cm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8487-7808-9 (9783848778089)
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