di Albert Piette [*]
Anthropology of the human being: a reversal operation
The idea of being-in-the-world—so deeply rooted in the philosophy of recent decades that it has permeated them considerably—sums up much of the thought in the social sciences, in its various expressions and tones: situated being, social being, relational being, being with. These expressions consume a lot of attention, thought and theory, because what seems most relevant in being-in-the-world is either the “in” or its variants (with), or the world, the environment, nature, other people, rather than the person who is there. It is as if he had been sucked up, as if attention were directed, on the one hand, to his link, his attachment, his connection to the world, his actions in, his experiences of, his relations with, his subjectification by; and on the other hand, to the world itself, whether it be a situation, society or culture. In any case, he is lost as a unit or entity, as has frankly been the case since the human and social sciences came into existence. Continua a leggere→