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Soziale Personen, soziale Ungleichheit und sozialer Tod.
- Source :
- Polylog; Winter2022, Issue 48, p133-156, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- How might one make sense of the intimate but often assumed connection between social inequality and social death? In this paper, I offer an answer. It develops in stages. First, I set out in some detail an account of person prominent in sub-Saharan African thought systems, specifically the version of it found in the writings of Ifeanyi Menkiti. Second, I show how this account entails both that persons are social entities and that consequently they belong in a social ontology. Third, I suggest a perspective on Orlando Patterson's notion of social death and then show how Menkiti's account of persons as psycho-social entities can provide ontological grounding for the phenomenon of social death. Roughly, the overarching claim is that rather than merely disrespect their victims, oppressive forms of social inequality essentially depersonalise them in the sense at issue in Patterson's social death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EQUALITY
SOCIAL belonging
SOCIAL theory
SOCIAL facts
ONTOLOGY
AFRICAN philosophy
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Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 15606325
- Issue :
- 48
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Polylog
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163878307