EAN: 9783319772455

THE SELF AND SOCIAL RELATIONS - MATTHEW WHITTIN...

This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of
which she is a member. It argues against the traditional atomistic view that individuals are
essentially independent of the social relations into which they enter  and instead argues for
the holistic view that we are essentially social beings who cannot exist apart from normative
communities. Matthew Whittingham engages in a sustained exploration and criticism of the
classic Western picture of epistemology. He argues instead that communities ground the
possibility of our forming a conception of the world and ourselves  that those social relations
open up a range of affective responses and forms of action that would otherwise be impossible 
they enable us to know and reason about the world  and they make possible the daily struggles
for freedom and self-realization that are familiar to us all and find their most powerful
expression in major social movements.

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