Searle, John
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
- ISBN 13:
- 9780199695263
- author:
- Searle, John
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 23.2 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
- Genre:
- Philosophy of language
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
John Searle's Making the Social World explores the fundamental nature of social reality. He examines how language shapes our understanding of social facts, such as money, property, and governments.
Searle argues that we can have factual objective knowledge of a reality created by subjective opinions. However, he also questions how this is possible in a world where mindless particles make up the physical realm. In answering this question, Searle shows how human reality fits into the one reality described by physics and chemistry.
He explains how language creates and maintains the structures of human social institutions, which in turn create and distribute power relations that shape human actions and hold civilization together.
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