Social Ontology

Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness

Michael Eldred

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Available from  ontos verlag Frankfurt, Germany and online bookstores such as  Amazon under the title Social Ontology : Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness 2008 Hardback xiv + 688 pp. ISBN 978-3-938793-78-7 and as an e-book from  ontoslink. Also at  Google Book Search where extensive parts can be read.
Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of this inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. We human beings strive to become who we are in an ongoing power interplay with each other. Thinkers called as witnesses include Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Protagoras, Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.
Copyright (c) 1985-2008 by Michael Eldred, all rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the author is notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author.
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