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John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality (Hardcover)
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John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
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John Searle (1932-) is one of the most famous living American
philosophers. A pupil of J. L. Austin at Oxford in the 1950s, he is
currently Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at
the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995 John Searle
published "The Construction of Social Reality", a text which not
only promises to disclose the institutional backdrop against which
speech takes place, but initiate a new 'philosophy of society'.
Since then "The Construction of Social Reality" has been subject to
a flurry of criticism. While many of Searle's interlocutors share
the sense that the text marks an important breakthrough, he has
time and again accused critics of misunderstanding his claims.
Despite Searle's characteristic crispness and clarity there remains
some confusion, among both philosophers and sociologists, regarding
the significance of his proposals. This book traces some of the
high points of this dialogue, leveraging Searle's own
clarifications to propose a new way of understanding the text. In
particular, Joshua Rust looks to Max Weber in suggesting that
Searle has articulated an ideal type. In locating The Construction
of Social Reality under the umbrella of one of sociology's founding
fathers, this book not only makes Searle's text more accessible to
the readers in the social sciences, but presents Max Weber as a
thinker worthy of philosophical reconsideration. Moreover, the
recharacterization of Searle's claims in terms of the ideal type
helps facilitate a comparison between Searle and other social
theorists such as Talcott Parsons.
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