Social construction of emotions, hermeneutics and anthropocentrism: toward an antipositvist naturalism
The social constructonist view has established the significance of society and culture for the scientific study of emotions. But acknowledging the relevance of the social and cultural levels in the explanation of emotions does not commit us to the ontological and epistemological basis of social cons...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad |
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| Online Access: | http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/470 |
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| Summary: | The social constructonist view has established the significance of society and culture for the scientific study of emotions. But acknowledging the relevance of the social and cultural levels in the explanation of emotions does not commit us to the ontological and epistemological basis of social constructonism. In this artcle, I argue i) that the social constructonist view of emotions is a variety of hermeneutical human science; ii) that hermeneutical human sciences lie on anthropocentric ontological and epistemological assumptions that are ultimately incompatible with the sustainability challenges posed by the planet’s limits to economical and demographic growth; and iii) that an alternative to hermeneutics (a fortori to social constructonism) and its anthropocentric assumptions is an antipositivist naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1852-8759 |