Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Social-Differentiation and Self-Differentiation: The Jaina Concept of the Individual and Sociological Individualisation-Paradigms
While ‘individuality’ is regarded as a cultural construct, this article argues that its trans-cultural investigation has hardly begun, both empirically and theoretically. Comparative work to date has been confined to euro-centric approaches. South Asian models of the individual, though amongst the earliest on record, have not been taken seriously as credible alternatives to European models, other than under the label of ‘ethnosociology’. The present article seeks to redress the balance, by offering a sociological reconstruction of the classical concept of the individual in Jaina philosophy and of its social implications. It argues that previously opaque aspects of the dualistic conception of individuality of the Jainas can be freshly understood, and analysed, with the help of the sociological concepts of G. Simmel and N. Luhmann, which in turn are interpreted as variations of broader transcultural themes.
- ISSN
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1470-8078
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 212-273
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Max Weber Studies, 18(2)
- Thema
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Soziologie, Anthropologie
Philosophie
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Philosophie, Theologie
Individuum
Individualität
Religion
Entfremdung
Hierarchie
Gleichheit
Verzicht
Persönlichkeit
Freiheit
Dilthey, W.
Luhmann, N.
Mannheim, K.
Simmel, G.
Weber, M.
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Flügel, Peter
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2018
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61210-4
- Rechteinformation
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Flügel, Peter
Entstanden
- 2018