A Global Community of Self-Defense

Norbert Elias on Normativity, Culture and Involvement
1., 2015
ISBN: 978-3-465-04232-7
Verlag: Vittorio Klostermann

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 202 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 338 g

Reihe: Schriftenreihe des Käte Hamburger Kollegs "Recht als Kultur"

Wittgenstein writes: "We can easily imagine people amusing themselves in a field by playing with a ball so as to start various existing games, but playing many without finishing them and in between throwing the ball aimlessly into the air, chasing one another with the ball and bombarding one another for a joke and so on. And now someone says: The whole time they are playing a ball-game and following definite rules at every throw. And is there not also the case where we play and make up the rules as we go along? And there is even one where we alter them – as we go along.“ In this book, the author is tackling one of the most salient problems in our current debate about globality: How a global community is possible. She is asking: How do we make the rules of our games? Where does the normativity of our moral laws, statutory provisions and table manners come from? How do we strive to keep naked violence at bay by allowing power to be vested with the right of correction? Can humanity as a whole become a global community of self-defense? Marta Bucholc seeks answers to these questions in the writings of Norbert Elias, while watching the players in the field go on.

Zielgruppe

Soziologen, Rechtssoziologen, Philosophen, Politologen

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bucholc, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Bucholc, sociologist, philosopher and legal scholar, is assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.