Lester Embree on ‘Collective Subjects’

• Autores: Belvedere, Carlos Daniel
• Año de publicación: 2017
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Collective Subjects; Groups; First Person Plural; Methodological Individualism; Egology
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Embree claimed that Schutz did not remain a methodological individualist during all of his academic life since he came to consider the individual as an abstractum abstracted from a concrete collective life. In this view, the socio-historical world cannot be understood as a mere structure of individuals because it also contains groups that are related one to another in diverse ways and which are the concrete subject of the social world. I stress three major contributions of Embree to social phenomenology: to have shown the deficiencies of methodological individualism because it conceals that the social world is a world of groups; to have found a phenomenological way to speak of collective subjects not involving metaphysical mystifications; and to have found a different way to access phenomena by re-specifying the first person perspective as “first person plural.”
Fil: Belvedere, Carlos Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina