Action, Belief, and Community

This is a study about man who is a part of the world of physical events, including actions. As a bunch of actions which are conditioned by beliefs and other attitudes, man co-creates communities which emerge and vanish along time. While generating and undergoing changes man is potentially a dynamic and flexible creature who at least partially manages relations with the world, including other men. This study is of an interdisciplinary nature, where the author merges philosophy and cultural anthropology with insight into sociology and communication studies. At the same time, the author takes an anti-essentialist position, where the study is a hypothetical construct. While doing this, the author assembles a particular vocabulary, where action, belief and community are addressed by communication, culture, thickness and the like concepts.

List of contents

Action and human property - Interaction - Exchange - War - Communication - Belief and a special attitude - A set and system of attitudes - Change - Culture - Intercultural reality - The individual - Community and communities - Me/us vs. them - Putnam - Meaning - Use - Balance - Thickness

About the author

Andrzej Zaporowski has the degrees in ethnography, philosophy, and sciences of cognition and social communication. He heads the Laboratory of History and Methodology of Sciences of Culture in the Institute of Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Product details

• Authors: Andrzej Zaporowski
• Assisted by: Jan Hartman (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783631762509
• ISBN: 978-3-631-76250-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 319 g
• Series: Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities; Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities; Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works