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The Things of the World - A Social Phenomenology (Hardcover)
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The Things of the World - A Social Phenomenology (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to be a social being in the ordinary life-world?
This clear and compelling introduction to social phenomenology
examines the experiential features of the basic things comprising
our life-world, namely me, you, abstract others (enemies,
communities, and associations), and attributes of the lived-body
(emotions, pain, and pleasure). Each of these entities is
phenomenologically described, with the aim of reducing reports of
personal experiences and other primary documents to the presumed
prototypical experience of the thing in question--its "ideal
essence." Another aim of this study is to sociologically account
for how the various entities of the life-world have been
"accomplished," that is, how the prototypical experiences of the
things in question have come to be. By showing the life-world to be
our joint project rather than a fixed, unalterable coherency, this
volume destabilizes our naive attitude towards the things of the
world. Examples are drawn from the author's own research on issues
such as violence, religion, health, and race; from classic and
contemporary anthropological research; and from the works of some
of the most innovative philosophers of the twentieth century. This
study actually does phenomenology instead of merely arguing for its
necessity and will appeal to both social scientists and
philosophers.
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