Who's afraid of Ontology
Tables, Humans and the arrival of Object-Oriented Social Theory (O.O.S.T)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3879166 |
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| Authors | Thiago Pinho (0000-0003-4147-6331, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Das Questões (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2447-7087 • E-ISSN: 2447-7087 |
| Publisher | Biblioteca Central da UNB (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26512/dasquestoes.v18i1.51952 |
| OpenAlex | W4400348056 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
as well as authors of the most varied schools.In Contemporary Social Theory on the other hand, this diversity is reduced to a phenomenological debate 2 .This does not necessarily mean that the authors involved are phenomenologists, or that they even understand what phenomenology represents, but only that this approach remains on the horizon, almost as a Foucauldian episteme, that is, as the conditions of possibility for questions, concepts, debates and other products of the academic universe.In fact, anthropologists [and sociologists] who embrace phenomenological aims do not always explicitly apply the phenomenological method (the reduction or epoche), engage the work of phenomenological thinkers (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty), or elaborate themes and concepts typically associated with phenomenology as a descriptive enterprise (intersubjectivity, thematization, embodiment).For the most part, any anthropologist [and sociologist] concerned in the least with the category of 'experience' is likely to claim to be doing, or be identified by others as doing, phenomenology (KATZ; CSORDAS, 2003, p. 277) The ontological horizon, at least within the humanities and social sciences, basically boils down to the terrain of experience, generally using the Heideggerian distinction (and hierarchy) between present-at-hand (and its epistemological and representational products) and ready-to-hand (and its practical and pre-reflexive sphere).This type of approach can be found in several authors of the social sciences, but mainly in the ontological turn, phenomenological sociology and anthropology, existential sociology, as well as in classical approaches involving symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology.Adopting a Heideggerian model (at least our interpretation of Heidegger) to speak of practice, especially that which is more spontaneous and involves the body and the dynamics of affect, presents itself as a guarantee of ontological contact with things, the assurance that we finally access reality and not representational distortions of it.Concepts like experience, for this reason, not only populate the vocabulary of thousands of papers, books and lectures, but are also offered as a means to access ontological foundations.According to Karl Jaspers, "people wanted 'life', wanted 'really to live'.They demanded 'realism'.Instead of wanting merely to know, they wanted to experience for themselves.Everywhere, they sought 'authenticity', searched for 'origins
Episteme · Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Existentialism · Fundamental ontology · Intersubjectivity · Ontology · Phenomenological sociology · Phenomenology (philosophy · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy
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