THE SPACE OF COEXISTENCE IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SOCIETY, NATURE AND THE WORLD

• Authors: Zembahs R.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article seeks to assess the interplay of society, nature and the world from the perspective of spatial characteristics. First, that is viewed from a purely phenomenological perspective, and then phenomenology is assessed in a broader context, with discussion of its limitations and the possibility of overcoming of them. The focus is on whether and how it is possible to observe society and thus to capture its 'essence' on the level of special phenomenological experience. Thus, first of all, it should be determined how social experience occurs, and it should be ascertained whether society can be captured as a 'meaningful structure' or as a specific 'objectity' (Gegenständlichkeit), as something that can be 'experienced' in a particular way. Or, as is more likely, it is a category of understanding that unites the totality of certain events, namely, something that happens with directly experienced human activities and their final results - 'facts'. The author concludes that the 'secret' of everything lies in the coexistential space and in the way being/nature is transformed into the world.

Keywords

EN

OBJECTITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; SOCIETY AS MEANINGFUL STRUCTURE; SPACE OF COEXISTENCE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: EPC Ltd (Economic Prognosis Centre), Riga, Latvia (till March 2009 - Institute of Economics, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Ltd)
• Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 2(55)
• Pages: 15-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zembahs R.

• R. Zembahs, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia, 1 Akademijas laukums, Riga, LV-1940, Latvia, http://www.lza.lv/inst/in20.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08LVAAAA05462