Toward an Ontology of Social Communities - With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities

This is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement.
The work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl's yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl, Heideger, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology, i.e., a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method, that is, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements), how it relates to other individuals or other communities, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place.
The book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory, cognitive science, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research.
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About the author

Sebastian Luft, Paderborn University, Germany; Rodney K.B. Parker, King’s University College, UWO, Ontario, Canada.

Summary

This is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement.
The work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl’s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl, Heideger, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology, i.e., a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method, that is, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements), how it relates to other individuals or other communities, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place.
The book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory, cognitive science, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research.
Also available as paperback: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783110764857/html

Product details

• Authors: Gerda Walther
• Assisted by: K B Parker (Editor), Rodney K B Parker (Editor), Luft (Editor), Sebastian Luft (Editor), Rodney Parker (Editor), Rodney K.B. Parker (Editor), Sebastian Luft (Translation), Rodney Parker (Translation), Rodney K.B. Parker (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Original title: Zur Ontologie der sozialen Gemeinschaften (mit einem Anhang zur Phänomenologie der sozialen Gemeinschaften)
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9783110763072
• ISBN: 978-3-11-076307-2
• No. of pages: 370
• Illustrations: 1 b/w ill.
• Series: Women Philosophers Heritage Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophie, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Sociology, Sozialontologie, History of Western philosophy, Population & demography, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, PHI016000 PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOC026000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social Ontology, Phänomenologie sozialer Gemeinschaften, phenomenology of social communities, We-intentionality, Wir-Intentionalität, communal lived-experiences, gemeinschaftliche Lebenserfahrungen