Sociology towards death: Heidegger, time and social theory
| Autor: | Tad Skotnicki, Kelly Nielsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Poverty 060106 history of social sciences 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Temporality 06 humanities and the arts Existentialism Existential phenomenology Epistemology Phenomenology (philosophy) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0601 history and archaeology Meaning (existential) Sociology Everyday life Social theory |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Classical Sociology. 19:111-137 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2897 1468-795X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1468795x18772745 |
| Popis: | In this article, we draw on the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger to propose an approach to sociology that takes human experiences of finitude and possibility as crucial topics of investigation. A concern with death is not absent in sociological thought. To the contrary, Durkheim’s Suicide grounds a sociological research tradition into death and dying. Yet Heidegger’s existentialism renders our finitude – not just death – a matter of everyday life, a constitutive feature of human existence and a source of sociological investigation. By explicating Heidegger’s interconnected concepts of finitude, futurity, authenticity and resoluteness, we propose to investigate people’s ordinary temporal experiences as well as the institutional contexts that make them possible. On this basis, we develop two concepts – existential marginalisation and existential exhaustion – that foreground questions of time, meaning and institutions in the study of poverty, inequality and everyday life. |
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