Meaning, Subjectivity, Society :Making Sense of Modernity ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Making Sense of Modernity

Publication series :1

Author: Smith   Karl E.  

Publisher: Brill‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9789004190559

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004181724

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004181724

Subject: B017 epistemology

Language: ENG

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Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? This book grapples with these perennial questions, primarily through a dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor, using an interdisciplinary-hermeneutical approach examining issues of meaning, subjectivity and modern society.

Chapter

Preface

pp.:  7 – 8

Acknowledgements

pp.:  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.:  11 – 18

Framing a theory of meaning

pp.:  19 – 21

Magma

pp.:  22 – 24

Signification and language

pp.:  25 – 29

The radical imaginary

pp.:  34 – 34

Meaning

pp.:  35 – 36

Social imaginary significations

pp.:  37 – 42

The unsayable

pp.:  43 – 48

Qualitative distinctions

pp.:  49 – 56

Conclusion

pp.:  57 – 58

Chapter Two The Self

pp.:  59 – 100

Introduction

pp.:  59 – 60

Time and narrative

pp.:  64 – 67

Embodiment

pp.:  68 – 69

Social orientation

pp.:  70 – 73

Webs of interlocution

pp.:  74 – 78

Subject-referring properties

pp.:  79 – 83

Corporeal limitations

pp.:  84 – 85

Seeking the no-self

pp.:  86 – 91

Other than good

pp.:  92 – 94

Knowing and doing

pp.:  95 – 97

Conclusion

pp.:  98 – 100

Chapter Three The Subject

pp.:  101 – 138

Introduction

pp.:  101 – 104

For-itself

pp.:  105 – 107

Living-being

pp.:  108 – 109

The psyche

pp.:  110 – 122

The social individual

pp.:  123 – 126

Autonomy

pp.:  127 – 132

Excursus on reality

pp.:  133 – 136

Conclusion

pp.:  137 – 138

Chapter Four Towards Modernity

pp.:  139 – 168

The social-historical

pp.:  140 – 155

Modernity

pp.:  156 – 165

Conclusion

pp.:  166 – 168

Chapter Five Autonomy

pp.:  169 – 200

Introduction

pp.:  169 – 171

Mapping autonomy

pp.:  172 – 185

Capitalismand autonomy

pp.:  186 – 195

Relativizing autonomy

pp.:  196 – 198

Conclusion

pp.:  199 – 200

Religion and autonomy

pp.:  203 – 223

Cultural creativity

pp.:  224 – 228

Creating meaning

pp.:  229 – 233

Autonomy and meaning

pp.:  234 – 236

Theory of action

pp.:  237 – 239

Power and autonomy

pp.:  240 – 244

Conclusion

pp.:  245 – 252

Bibliography

pp.:  253 – 258

Index

pp.:  259 – 276

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