Der Wirklichkeit widerstehen: Soziale Konstruktion und Sozialkritik

by Sally Haslanger

Was heißt es, eine Frau oder ein Mann, schwarz oder weiß zu sein? Hierauf geben feministische und antirassistische Theorien scheinbar widerstreitende Antworten: Während die einen diese Kategorien als sozial konstruiert begreifen, sofern unter sie zu fallen bedeutet, in bestimmten sozialen Beziehungen der Unterordnung zu stehen, denken andere sie als objektiv, sofern unter sie zu fallen für Menschen reale Konsequenzen zeitigt, denen sie sich schwer entziehen können. In dieser Sammlung bahnbrechender Aufsätze entwickelt die Philosophin Sally Haslanger eine sozialkonstruktionistische Theorie sozialer Arten, die diesen beiden Erfordernissen gleichermaßen Rechnung trägt.

Genres: Philosophy, Feminism, Nonfiction, Sociology, Race, Gender, Politics

283 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2012

About the author

Sally Haslanger is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews

[saml · Rating 3 out of 5]

finally finished this. it's too long by half. very repetitive: the papers should be read individually, the book should not be read as a book. the length allows haslanger to cover over every subject it possesses in billowy good sense, persistently and unobtrusively. this makes it hard to endorse or critique. i was mainly interested because it contains some of the loci classici of conceptual engineering, so this material was my favourite. it is less revisionary as some of the lore about it has suggested: it treats ameliorative definitions as basically for the most part descriptively accurate. this renders the amelioration far more plausible, though it leaves the social constructionist proposals open to empirical critique, as for instance about folk race concepts (or conceptions, or whatever). i also quite liked the supremely personal section on interracial adoption, somehow. there's a persisting tone of sobriety and openness combined with a slightly embarrassing, sort of teacherly wokeness which i associate with analytic feminist philosophy. this has it in buckets; it's quite comforting after a while, really

[Emily Jayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book thoroughly unpacks an overused concept, social construction, especially as it pertains to gender and race. I would say it is a necessary read if you want to be confident in your use of the term in an academic context. It is, however, a collection of separately published papers on similar themes. So if you read it front to back like I did, you might find it repetitive at times.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

manchmal scheint es so zu sein, als hätten sie in der analytischen Philosophie gestern Abend fix angefangen, ein bisschen zu lesen

[FluffyNyctea]

Please stop please analytic philosophers I beg you, stop yapping!!! Y’all can turn the most interesting issues into the most horrifying arguments…

[June · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really really enjoyed reading someone who takes critical theory seriously and writes with analytic rigor, Haslanger is truly one of the goats.

[Daniel O. Oni]

Incredibly hard to not see analytic social philosophy as inherently hamstrung.