Social Ontology of Whoness: Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy

by Michael Eldred

Book Overview

How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110616815
• ISBN13: 9783110616811
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary