Crisis, Experience, 'Excentricity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Gafijczuk (0000-0002-3548-8080, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 55-69 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632764231187589 |
| OpenAlex | W4385636990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper explores the relationship between crisis and experience, concentrating on 'excentric positionality' in relation to the shared world, as presented in the work of Helmuth Plessner. A by-product of the 1920s Weimar Germany, Plessner's philosophical anthropology, it is argued, presents us with a forgotten blueprint for transitive and compositional approaches to the social world. Instead of the familiar 'crisis of experience' used to diagnose 'what has gone wrong', it allows us to re-learn how to work with 'the experience of crisis' itself. The latter holds the key to a different type of approach based on 'xeno-communication'. This type of communication utilizes the productive potential of crisis in its uncertainty and hesitation before a decision, showing a way to extend and enlarge experience itself. Cultivation of these 'excentric' dynamics in turn suggests new 'excentric methodologies' based on a more flexible fit between concepts and the worlds they are meant to describe. 'Excentric methodologies' constitute a type of experience-based, analytical response to the shared world. They work with phenomena across spaces and problems, analytically utilizing their joint emergence from the fundamental imbalance and discontinuity characteristic of the human environment
Blueprint · Epistemology · Product (mathematics · Sociology · Transitive relation · Work (physics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Engineering · German Social Sciences and History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Social action and human nature
Songs of Experience
Non-Representational Theory
Cruel Optimism
The Social Life of Things
Theories of Distinction
Political Anthropology
The Politics of Life Itself
Agonistic Belonging
The philosophy of collective representations
The Emergence of Practical Self-Understanding
The Social Undecidedness Relation
Critique of cynical reason
Crisis
Making
The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Enacting the social
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |