Overview
- Offers a new interpretation of Marx's idea of social consciousness and ideology
- Studies how humans' intentional capacity impacts social formation and normativity
- Draws on work by Marx, Habermas, Kuhn, Rawls, and Austin
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This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. According to the naturalistic approach, we can discern the inner structure of social consciousness as a systematic pattern of Intentionality. Social consciousness involves three levels of development: subjective, objective and absolute. With this new pattern of social consciousness, the “naturalism” of the young Karl Marx can be revived. And by grasping the most essential ability of human Intentionality as the source of social formation, it also makes an interdisciplinary study of social philosophyand philosophy of mind possible.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Intentionality and Actions
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Collective Intentionality and Normativity
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Normativity with Universal Validity
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yang Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Institute of Marxist Philosophy and Chinese Modernization and the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2022) and M.A in Philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Genesis and Transformation of Social Consciousness
Book Subtitle: An Attempt at the Construction of Social Naturalism
Authors: Yang Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54419-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54418-7Published: 23 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54421-7Due: 23 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54419-4Published: 22 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 311
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy