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A Genealogical History of SocietyA Genealogical Concept

A Genealogical History of Society: A Genealogical Concept [When the genesis and formation process of the concept of society are carefully analyzed, it becomes clear that such a concept did not merely emerge from the observation of the human world. It was the result of an operation of re-signification of that world through the theoretical parameters and expectations of the prevailing individualist paradigm. If the outcomes of implementing the liberal principles were not those promised, this then implied, according to the theorists of the social, that the human world did not function as imagined by individualism, but just the opposite. The concept of society is no more than the logical inversion and theoretical mutation of the previous concept of the individual triggered by the frustrated expectations with classical liberalism. The origin and nature of the concept of society is not representational, but genealogical, in the sense that it is the result of the meaningful interaction between the inherited conceptual matrix and new real facts and situations. The theorists of the social did not “discover” the existence of “society”; they merely began to conceptualize and make sense of human beings and their world in a new way. The modern concept of society as objective entity is not the label of a phenomenon that really exists, but a component of the modern imaginary or discourse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Genealogical History of SocietyA Genealogical Concept

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Sociology Book Series
Cabrera, Miguel A.
Springer Journals — Oct 28, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-70436-4
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83 –95
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10.1007/978-3-319-70437-1_4
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Abstract

[When the genesis and formation process of the concept of society are carefully analyzed, it becomes clear that such a concept did not merely emerge from the observation of the human world. It was the result of an operation of re-signification of that world through the theoretical parameters and expectations of the prevailing individualist paradigm. If the outcomes of implementing the liberal principles were not those promised, this then implied, according to the theorists of the social, that the human world did not function as imagined by individualism, but just the opposite. The concept of society is no more than the logical inversion and theoretical mutation of the previous concept of the individual triggered by the frustrated expectations with classical liberalism. The origin and nature of the concept of society is not representational, but genealogical, in the sense that it is the result of the meaningful interaction between the inherited conceptual matrix and new real facts and situations. The theorists of the social did not “discover” the existence of “society”; they merely began to conceptualize and make sense of human beings and their world in a new way. The modern concept of society as objective entity is not the label of a phenomenon that really exists, but a component of the modern imaginary or discourse.]

Published: Oct 28, 2017

Keywords: Genealogical history; Genealogical concept; Modern imaginary; Discourse; Meaningful construction; Anti-representationalism

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