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The Idea of Social Life

dc.contributor.authorSandelands, Lloyd E.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T13:32:59Z
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dc.date.issued1995en_US
dc.identifier.citationSandelands, Lloyd (1995). "The Idea of Social Life." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25(2): 147-179. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68336>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0048-3931en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68336
dc.description.abstractThis paper reclaims the idea that human society is a form of life, an idea once vibrant in the work of Toennies, Durkheim, Simmel, Le Bon, Kroeber, Freud, Bion, and Follett but moribund today. Despite current disparagements, this idea remains the only and best answer to our primary experience of society as vital feeling. The main obstacle to conceiving society as a life is linguistic; the logical form of life is incommensurate with the logical form of language. However, it is possible to extend our conceptual reach by appealing to alternative symbolisms more congenial to living form such as, and especially, art.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleThe Idea of Social Lifeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/004839319502500201en_US
dc.identifier.sourcePhilosophy of the Social Sciencesen_US
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