We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood
The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of the community first view and a...
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| description | The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of the community first view and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of) a we. In presenting this argument, the article seeks to demonstrate that a thorough investigation of collective intentionality has to address the status and nature of the we, and that doing so will require an analysis of the relation between the we and the I, which in turn will call for a more explicit engagement with the question of selfhood than is customary in contemporary discussions of collective intentionality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68a1aa266be34a47b9f8f6352f97ce802023-09-02T13:26:17ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96552196-96632021-03-017112010.1515/jso-2020-0076We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and SelfhoodZahavi Dan0Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkThe article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of the community first view and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of) a we. In presenting this argument, the article seeks to demonstrate that a thorough investigation of collective intentionality has to address the status and nature of the we, and that doing so will require an analysis of the relation between the we and the I, which in turn will call for a more explicit engagement with the question of selfhood than is customary in contemporary discussions of collective intentionality.https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2020-0076collective intentionalityselfhoodwecollective identitygroup experiences |
| spellingShingle | Zahavi Dan We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood Journal of Social Ontology collective intentionality selfhood we collective identity group experiences |
| title | We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood |
| title_full | We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood |
| title_fullStr | We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood |
| title_full_unstemmed | We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood |
| title_short | We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood |
| title_sort | we in me or me in we collective intentionality and selfhood |
| topic | collective intentionality selfhood we collective identity group experiences |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2020-0076 |
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