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The Nature of Culture. Towards a Realist Phenomenology of Material, Animal and Human Nature
Author(s) -
Vandenberghe Frédéric
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-5914.2003.00226.x
Subject(s) - epistemology , phenomenology (philosophy) , reflexivity , transcendental number , modernity , postmodernism , opposition (politics) , human science , sociology , sketch , realism , lifeworld , politics , philosophy , social science , algorithm , political science , computer science , law
In an ironic rejoinder to the postmodern politics of nature, I will adopt an anthropological perspective on culture, which is conspicuous by its absence in the latest wave of science studies, and reformulate the distinction between nature and culture as a reflexive distinction within culture that emerges with modernity. In order to countering the hypertextualism of the (de)constructivists, I will next sketch out a realist theory of nature. Combining the transcendental realism of Roy Bhaskar with the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, I will then try to outline the contours of a realist phenomenology of the ontological regions of physical, animal and human nature. Resuming my anthropological considerations on culture, I will finish the article with a progressive account of how the opposition between regional ontologies and regional typologies could be overcome.