Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest Interpreting the Technicity of Action

Human action has a technical dimension. This book is a hermeneutic and social theoretical interpretation of how acquired capabilities and the means of action together shape the technicity of action. The enactment of individual, group, and institutional action is examined, drawing on situations rangi...

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Main Author Wolff, Ernst
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
Subjects
Action
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
c 1500 onwards to present day
Christianity
ethics
Ethics and moral philosophy
Ethik
Handeln
hermeneutics
Hermeneutik
History and Archaeology
History of religion
Literary studies: general
Literature: history and criticism
Medieval Western philosophy
Modern Western philosophy
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy and Religion
Religion and beliefs
Religion: general
technicity
Technik
Time period qualifiers
Topics in philosophy
Western philosophy from c 1800
Action
technicity
hermeneutics
ethics
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ISBN9783110725049
3110725045
3110725142
9783110725148
3110724979
9783110724974
DOI10.1515/9783110725049

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents --
  • Part 2: Finding Compromises in Practice --
  • Subject Index
  • Preface --
  • Intermediate Reflection: Tools for Critique --
  • Chapter 6: Of What Is "Ricoeur" the Name? Or, Philosophising at the Edge --
  • Chapter 1: The Effectiveness of Symbols: Mediology and Hermeneutics --
  • Chapter 2: Habitus - Means - Worldliness --
  • Chapter 3: Human Capabilities in the Light of Incapabilities --
  • Chapter 7: Acts of Violence as Political Competence? From Ricoeur to Mandela and Back --
  • Conclusion --
  • Chapter 4: Organized Action: Agency, (In)capabilities and Means --
  • Author Index --
  • Chapter 8: Justice Despite Institutions. Struggling for a Good Life from the Destitute Edge of Society --
  • Frontmatter --
  • An Integrated View of the Technicity of Action and the Question of Responsibility --
  • The Technical Dimension of Action --
  • Chapter 5: The Hermeneutics of Human Capabilities and the Theory of Structuration --
  • Introduction --
  • Bibliography --
  • Part 1: The Technicity of Action: Capabilities and Means --