Arvi Särkelä
Biographic Data
| ID | 300584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arvi Särkelä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Särkelä |
| SIGNATURE | SÄRKELÄ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lucerne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7525-7685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Critical Naturalism: Avenues for Further Critical Thought
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society
At the centre of Adorno’s critical theory of society lies the problem of Bann or Bannkreis: why do individuals systematically act in ways that reinforce conditions that are obviously incompatible with their freedom and pursuit of happiness? Despite criticism of Dewey’s experimentalism by several Frankfurt School critical theorists claiming that the American pragmatist fails to account for systematic blockages to critique, Dewey does in fact formu…
Negative Organicism: Adorno, Emerson, and the Idea of a Disclosing Critique of Society
This article articulates the idea of a disclosing critique of society. It starts from the assumption that the curiously organicistic undertones of Adorno's negative social ontology is part and parcel of a disclosing gesture in his social criticism. It then traces Adorno's debate with social organicists to the point where the critical theorist's own concept of society emerges with a claim to be critical in itself. It is argued that this critical c…
Social wrongs
In this paper we elucidate the notion of ‘social wrongs’. It differs from moral wrongness, and is broader than narrowly political wrongs. We distinguish conceptually monadic wrongness (1.1), dyadic wronging (1.2), and the idea of there being something ‘wrong with’ an entity (1.3). We argue that social and political wrongs share a feature with natural badness or wrongness (illnesses of organisms) as well as malfunctioning artifacts or dysfunctiona…
Between normativism and naturalism: Honneth on social pathology
Axel Honneth has revitalized the notion of "social pathology" as a critical concept for social philosophy and Critical Theory; he has even defined the task of social philosophy in terms of pathology diagnosis and that of Critical Theory as a diagnosis and therapy of social pathology (Honneth 2007(Honneth & 2009)).He has also used the idea of social pathology in his magnum opus (2014a) and studied it more widely as a critical tool in its own right…
Four conceptions of social pathology
This article starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are 'normativist' and hold that something is a social pathology if it is socially wrong. On the first view, there is no encompassing characterization of social pathologies available: it is a cluster concept of family resemblances. On the…
Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey
Based on a close reading of the works of Hegel, Dewey and Critical Theory, this book develops the concept of an immanent-critical, naturalistic social philosophy. In a first step, the author sketches a conception of immanent critique as a self-transformative social practice which consists in a dialogue between the philosopher and the everyday critics. This is followed by a cartography of the ontological presuppositions and metaphysical implicatio…
Degeneration of Associated Life: Dewey's Naturalism about Social Criticism
In this article, I inquire into the “naturalistic” aspect of John Dewey’s China lectures on social philosophy and ask what his naturalism about social philosophy is. In the lectures and the notes, Dewey describes the subject-matter and the method of social philosophy in naturalistic terms: the object of social philosophy is conceived as “associated life” and its method is likened to the “art of medicine,” as the social philosopher is understood t…
The Diseases of Society: Approaching a Nearly Impossible Concept
Though the idea of "social pathologies" or "diseases" of a whole society has been quite common since Rousseau`s Second Discourse and especially prominent within the tradition of critical theory, it is not really clear who precisely is proposed to have fallen ill here in the first place. Is it only some sufficient number of individual persons, is it the collective understood as a macro-subject, or is it the "society" itself as having been encroach…
The Diseases of Society: Approaching a Nearly Impossible Concept
Though the idea of "social pathologies" or "diseases" of a whole society has been quite common since Rousseau`s Second Discourse and especially prominent within the tradition of critical theory, it is not really clear who precisely is proposed to have fallen ill here in the first place. Is it only some sufficient number of individual persons, is it the collective understood as a macro-subject, or is it the "society" itself as having been encroach…
Four conceptions of social pathology
This article starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are 'normativist' and hold that something is a social pathology if it is socially wrong. On the first view, there is no encompassing characterization of social pathologies available: it is a cluster concept of family resemblances. On the…
Between normativism and naturalism: Honneth on social pathology
Axel Honneth has revitalized the notion of "social pathology" as a critical concept for social philosophy and Critical Theory; he has even defined the task of social philosophy in terms of pathology diagnosis and that of Critical Theory as a diagnosis and therapy of social pathology (Honneth 2007(Honneth & 2009)).He has also used the idea of social pathology in his magnum opus (2014a) and studied it more widely as a critical tool in its own right…
Degeneration of Associated Life: Dewey's Naturalism about Social Criticism
In this article, I inquire into the “naturalistic” aspect of John Dewey’s China lectures on social philosophy and ask what his naturalism about social philosophy is. In the lectures and the notes, Dewey describes the subject-matter and the method of social philosophy in naturalistic terms: the object of social philosophy is conceived as “associated life” and its method is likened to the “art of medicine,” as the social philosopher is understood t…
Negative Organicism: Adorno, Emerson, and the Idea of a Disclosing Critique of Society
This article articulates the idea of a disclosing critique of society. It starts from the assumption that the curiously organicistic undertones of Adorno's negative social ontology is part and parcel of a disclosing gesture in his social criticism. It then traces Adorno's debate with social organicists to the point where the critical theorist's own concept of society emerges with a claim to be critical in itself. It is argued that this critical c…
Social wrongs
In this paper we elucidate the notion of ‘social wrongs’. It differs from moral wrongness, and is broader than narrowly political wrongs. We distinguish conceptually monadic wrongness (1.1), dyadic wronging (1.2), and the idea of there being something ‘wrong with’ an entity (1.3). We argue that social and political wrongs share a feature with natural badness or wrongness (illnesses of organisms) as well as malfunctioning artifacts or dysfunctiona…
The Diseases of Society: Approaching a Nearly Impossible Concept
Though the idea of "social pathologies" or "diseases" of a whole society has been quite common since Rousseau`s Second Discourse and especially prominent within the tradition of critical theory, it is not really clear who precisely is proposed to have fallen ill here in the first place. Is it only some sufficient number of individual persons, is it the collective understood as a macro-subject, or is it the "society" itself as having been encroach…
Degeneration of Associated Life: Dewey's Naturalism about Social Criticism
In this article, I inquire into the “naturalistic” aspect of John Dewey’s China lectures on social philosophy and ask what his naturalism about social philosophy is. In the lectures and the notes, Dewey describes the subject-matter and the method of social philosophy in naturalistic terms: the object of social philosophy is conceived as “associated life” and its method is likened to the “art of medicine,” as the social philosopher is understood t…
Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey
Based on a close reading of the works of Hegel, Dewey and Critical Theory, this book develops the concept of an immanent-critical, naturalistic social philosophy. In a first step, the author sketches a conception of immanent critique as a self-transformative social practice which consists in a dialogue between the philosopher and the everyday critics. This is followed by a cartography of the ontological presuppositions and metaphysical implicatio…
Between normativism and naturalism: Honneth on social pathology
Axel Honneth has revitalized the notion of "social pathology" as a critical concept for social philosophy and Critical Theory; he has even defined the task of social philosophy in terms of pathology diagnosis and that of Critical Theory as a diagnosis and therapy of social pathology (Honneth 2007(Honneth & 2009)).He has also used the idea of social pathology in his magnum opus (2014a) and studied it more widely as a critical tool in its own right…
Four conceptions of social pathology
This article starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are 'normativist' and hold that something is a social pathology if it is socially wrong. On the first view, there is no encompassing characterization of social pathologies available: it is a cluster concept of family resemblances. On the…
Negative Organicism: Adorno, Emerson, and the Idea of a Disclosing Critique of Society
This article articulates the idea of a disclosing critique of society. It starts from the assumption that the curiously organicistic undertones of Adorno's negative social ontology is part and parcel of a disclosing gesture in his social criticism. It then traces Adorno's debate with social organicists to the point where the critical theorist's own concept of society emerges with a claim to be critical in itself. It is argued that this critical c…
Social wrongs
In this paper we elucidate the notion of ‘social wrongs’. It differs from moral wrongness, and is broader than narrowly political wrongs. We distinguish conceptually monadic wrongness (1.1), dyadic wronging (1.2), and the idea of there being something ‘wrong with’ an entity (1.3). We argue that social and political wrongs share a feature with natural badness or wrongness (illnesses of organisms) as well as malfunctioning artifacts or dysfunctiona…
Vicious circles: Adorno, Dewey and disclosing critique of society
At the centre of Adorno’s critical theory of society lies the problem of Bann or Bannkreis: why do individuals systematically act in ways that reinforce conditions that are obviously incompatible with their freedom and pursuit of happiness? Despite criticism of Dewey’s experimentalism by several Frankfurt School critical theorists claiming that the American pragmatist fails to account for systematic blockages to critique, Dewey does in fact formu…
Introduction: Critical Naturalism: Avenues for Further Critical Thought
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 works) · Critical theory (4 works) · Criticism (4 works) · Naturalism (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)