The Timespace of Human Activity: On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events (Toposophia) (Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space)

Schatzki, Theodore R.

ISBN 10: 0739180673 / ISBN 13: 9780739180679

Editore: Lexington Books, 2012

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• Titolo: The Timespace of Human Activity: On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events (Toposophia) (Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0739180673
• ISBN 13: 9780739180679
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 485,3 grammi

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Riassunto

This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of sociohistorical change as well. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues (1) that timespace is a key component of the overall space and time of social life, (2) that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of important social phenomena such as power, coordinated actions, social organizations, and social systems, and (3) that history encompasses constellations of indeterminate temporal spatial events. The latter conception of history in turn yields a propitious account of how the past exists in the present. In addition, because the concept of activity timespace highlights the teleological character of human action, the book contains an extensive defense of the teleological character of such allegedly a teleological forms of activity as emotional and ceremonial actions. Since, finally, the book's ideas about timespace and activity as an indeterminate event derive from an interpretation of Heidegger, the work furthers understanding of the relevance of his thought for social and historical theory. The book combines textual interpretation, theoretical argumentation, and empirical substantiation. Many of its empirical examples are taken from the Blue Grass Horse Country around Lexington, Kentucky, where the author resides.

Informazioni sull?autore

Theodore R. Schatzki is professor and associate dean of faculty in the department of philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is author of Social Practices: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social, The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Exploration of the Constitution of Social Life and Change, and Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space, as well as coeditor of The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory.