Book contents
- Heidegger’s Social Ontology
- Modern European Philosophy
- Heidegger’s Social Ontology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
- Introduction
- Part I Being-In-the-World and Being-With
- Part II Forms of Being-With
- Chapter 4 Interpersonal Understanding
- Chapter 5 Shared Action
- Chapter 6 Two Types of Social Normativity
- Part III Politics and Authenticity
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Shared Action
from Part II - Forms of Being-With
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2023
- Heidegger’s Social Ontology
- Modern European Philosophy
- Heidegger’s Social Ontology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
- Introduction
- Part I Being-In-the-World and Being-With
- Part II Forms of Being-With
- Chapter 4 Interpersonal Understanding
- Chapter 5 Shared Action
- Chapter 6 Two Types of Social Normativity
- Part III Politics and Authenticity
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter turns from the you of interpersonal understanding to the we of shared action. Drawing on Heidegger’s philosophy of action (as well as that of Merleau-Ponty and Dreyfus), I argue that we should conceptualise shared action on the basis of pre-reflective solicitations rather than deliberate acts guided by occurrent and propositionally structured intentions. In dialogue with Bratman, Gilbert, Schmid, and Zahavi, I show that Heidegger’s conception of existential selfhood – that is, the sense of self reflected back to us from worldly solicitations and saliences – enables us to account for several distinct types of shared action, depending on how the solicitation in question refers to a group of agents rather than a single agent. I further show that Heidegger’s notion of discourse [Rede] refers to the expressive (but not necessarily linguistic) and often unconscious process in which saliences are shared between people.
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- Heidegger's Social OntologyThe Phenomenology of Self, World, and Others, pp. 130 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022