Transcendentalism, social embeddeddness, and the problem of individuality

Q4 Arts and Humanities
A. Michalska
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It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that the notion of ecological and social embeddedness is one of the most exploited philosophical ideas these days, both in the academia and beyond. The most troublesome about the overall trend is that many proponents of the idea of social embeddedness simplistically consider selfhood as a form of aberration which merely provides vindication for inequality and violence. In this paper, instead of attacking the problem of the individual versus the collective head-on, I approach it by way of a critique of Stephen Turner’s repudiation of transcendental collectivism (Turner, 1994; Turner, 2010). According to Turner, transcendental entities, such as tacit knowledge, presuppositions, or traditions, should be altogether removed from explanatory schemata in the social sciences. I believe that Turner’s razor cuts too deep and the rejection of implicit framing is at best premature. Against the background of the identified shortcomings of Turner’s model of interactive learning, I track the interrelations between social development and the development of the self with an eye to showing that the relationship between individual selves and social reality is an extremely complex and multifactorial matter which we cannot hope to navigate without a proper transcendental frame. The frame is what mediates the relationship between the individual and the collective.
先验主义,社会嵌入性,以及个性问题
可以毫不夸张地说,生态和社会嵌入性的概念是当今学术界内外被利用最多的哲学思想之一。总体趋势中最麻烦的是,许多社会嵌入性观点的支持者简单地认为自我是一种失常的形式,只是为不平等和暴力提供辩护。在本文中,我没有正面攻击个人与集体的问题,而是通过批评斯蒂芬·特纳对先验集体主义的否定来接近它(特纳,1994;特纳,2010)。根据特纳的观点,先验实体,如隐性知识、预设或传统,应该完全从社会科学的解释图式中移除。我认为特纳的剃刀割得太深了,拒绝隐含框架充其量是为时过早。在特纳互动学习模式被发现的缺陷的背景下,我追踪了社会发展与自我发展之间的相互关系,并着眼于表明个人自我与社会现实之间的关系是一个极其复杂和多因素的问题,如果没有适当的先验框架,我们就无法希望导航。框架是调解个人和集体之间关系的东西。
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Argument  Biannual Philosophical Journal
Argument Biannual Philosophical Journal Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
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