Open AccessMimesis, law, struggle. A contribution to social ontology
Author(s) -
Rastko Jovanov
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1504917j
Subject(s) - solidarity , identity (music) , epistemology , sociology , collective action , collective identity , hegelianism , ontology , feeling , presentation (obstetrics) , social ontology , social identity theory , order (exchange) , philosophy , law , social group , aesthetics , social science , political science , politics , medicine , finance , economics , radiology
In this text, I begin from a brief presentation of Edith Stein's neglected theory of collective identity in contemporary social ontology, in order to, building on and resisting her conclusions, elaborate a new differentiation of various forms of collective identity. The thesis is that there are only three basic forms of communal living and action which have a feeling of collective belonging and solidarity, that is, collective identity: the masses, associations (corporations) and communities. I go on to further develop their respective particularities through the use of the terms of mimesis, (established) law and struggle, and by using certain insights from Hegel regarding the nature of “objective spirit”