A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality.
 In this book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the
next level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society as
part of nature. He shows how and why we ought to unite our
biological conception of human beings as animals with our
sociocultural and psychological conceptions of human beings as
persons and acculturated agents. Rouse’s philosophy engages with
biological understandings of human bodies and their environments as
well as the diverse practices and institutions through which people
live and engage with one another. Familiar conceptual separations
of natural, social, and mental “worlds” did not arise by
happenstance, he argues, but often for principled reasons that have
left those divisions deeply entrenched in contemporary intellectual
life. Those reasons are eroding in light of new developments across
the disciplines, but that erosion has not been sufficient to
produce more adequately integrated conceptual alternatives until
now. Â Social Practices and Biological Niche Construction
shows how the characteristic plasticity, plurality, and critical
contestation of human ways of life can best be understood as
evolved and evolving relations among human organisms and their
distinctive biological environments. It also highlights the
constitutive interdependence of those ways of life with many other
organisms, from microbial populations to certain plants and
animals, and explores the consequences of this in-depth, noting,
for instance, how the integration of the natural and social also
provides new insights on central issues in social theory, such as
the body, language, normativity, and power.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Joseph Rouse
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82797-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-226-82797-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780226827971 |
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