The Loss of Singular Existence and Personal Experience. The Problem of Interchangeability in the Social Sciences
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Title
The Loss of Singular Existence and Personal Experience. The Problem of Interchangeability in the Social Sciences
Title of the book
The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science (H. Wardle, N. Rapport & A. Piette, eds)
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781003156697
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Published
Issued date
09/06/2023
Pages
244-254
Language
english
Abstract
This chapter describes a widespread tendency in the social sciences to lose sight of the singular existence and personal experience of every human being in favour of the primacy and stability of social phenomena. Interchangeability constitutes a crucial element for understanding why and how the social sciences encounter difficulties grasping human singularity and subjectivity. A typology of various kinds of interchangeability is offered, combining two different forms: the interchangeability of individuals and the interchangeability of perspectives. Finally, the anthropological and phenomenological conditions that must be fulfilled to construct a social theory without interchangeability are discussed.
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