From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement
This article approaches the notion of engagement from the perspective of critical ontology. With language as the starting point of its hermeneutic task, it commences with an etymological analyses of diverse Indo-European words gravitating around the semantic field of the notion of engagemen...
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2021-01-01
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| description | This article approaches the notion of engagement from the perspective of
critical ontology. With language as the starting point of its hermeneutic
task, it commences with an etymological analyses of diverse Indo-European
words gravitating around the semantic field of the notion of engagement.
From these introductory insights obtained by an exercise in comparative
linguistics, devotion and commitment are mapped as two opposite, yet
inseparable, modes of being of engagement. Both of these modes seem to
condition engagement in an ontologically disparate manner. While examining
their fundamental structures, some of the canonical concepts of history of
philosophy such as being, existence, subjectivity, or world - and also some
of its constitutive binary oppositions such as body/mind,
individual/collective, transcendence/immanence, light/darkness and
sacred/secular - will be reconsidered through the prism of different
ontological dispositions that devotion and commitment impose respectively on
engagement. The overall aim of this investigation is to bring forth the main
existential characteristics of being-engaged, by interpreting the roles of
who, where, and what of engagement, and in order to provide a fundamental
conceptual apparatus for a critical ontology of engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c81c2b67bf3430f80ba15f2f3b1d4562022-12-21T22:31:22ZdeuInstitute for Philosophy and Social Theory, BelgradeFilozofija i Društvo0353-57382334-85772021-01-0132226128110.2298/FID2102261P0353-57382102261PFrom devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagementPerunović Andrea0Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of BelgradeThis article approaches the notion of engagement from the perspective of critical ontology. With language as the starting point of its hermeneutic task, it commences with an etymological analyses of diverse Indo-European words gravitating around the semantic field of the notion of engagement. From these introductory insights obtained by an exercise in comparative linguistics, devotion and commitment are mapped as two opposite, yet inseparable, modes of being of engagement. Both of these modes seem to condition engagement in an ontologically disparate manner. While examining their fundamental structures, some of the canonical concepts of history of philosophy such as being, existence, subjectivity, or world - and also some of its constitutive binary oppositions such as body/mind, individual/collective, transcendence/immanence, light/darkness and sacred/secular - will be reconsidered through the prism of different ontological dispositions that devotion and commitment impose respectively on engagement. The overall aim of this investigation is to bring forth the main existential characteristics of being-engaged, by interpreting the roles of who, where, and what of engagement, and in order to provide a fundamental conceptual apparatus for a critical ontology of engagement.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2021/0353-57382102261P.pdfengagementcommitmentdevotionbeingsubjectcollectivityworldontology |
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| title | From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| title_full | From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| title_fullStr | From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| title_full_unstemmed | From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| title_short | From devotion to commitment: Towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| title_sort | from devotion to commitment towards a critical ontology of engagement |
| topic | engagement commitment devotion being subject collectivity world ontology |
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