The Subject of Human Being

ISBN-13: 9781138183186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 290 str.

Chris Haley;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

The Subject of Human Being discusses the basic powers of human kind arising from the foundation of the biological brain and manifesting in extraordinary psychological and social capacities and developments. The book consolidates theoretical insights into social ontology from several thinkers, whose profound advances toward understanding the relationship between individuals and society ought to revolutionize social theory as understood and practiced in the social sciences and humanities. Drawing from critical realist social theory developed by Bhaskar and Margaret Archer, John Searle's philosophy of mind and social ontology, Husserlean and Sartrean phenomenology of consciousness, and Lacanian and existential psychoanalytic theory, the book seeks to portray a unified social ontology that is materialist, emergent, realist, dialectical, processual, and liberatory. Offering a dialectical and progressive view of human being to counter the forces of exploitation and division inflicted on human kind and the ecosystems in which we reside, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical realism, philosophy and sociology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction;  2. Philosophical materialism;  3. The ontology of consciousness;  4. The ontology of subjectivity;  5. The subject of psychoanalysis;  6. The subject of structure;  7. Social ontology;  8. Conclusion;  Index

O autorze

Christopher W. Haley is an independent scholar based in Austin, Texas, USA.