KONSTITUISANJE ZAJEDNIČKE PERSPEKTIVE: ANGAŽOVANI AKTI I LOGIKA POZIVA
CONSTITUTING JOINT PERSPECTIVE: ENGAGED ACTS AND THE LOGIC OF CALL

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer a detailed analysis of the concepts of individual and shared perspective, the call, and engagement, and thus contribute to the theoretical elumination of these phenomena and debates on collective intentionality. First, we introduce the phenomenological concept of perspective that we will use through the rest of the paper, refining it by making comparisons with the relevant literature. Second, we focus on Helm’s notion of joint evaluative perspective as the key to understanding collective intentionality. A more thorough understanding of the process of constitution of the joint perspective through interactions between agents and the communication of their individual perspectives, leading to the harmonization of the joint perspective, will be pointed out as an important further task. The third part of the paper will be devoted to engaged acts (in the narrow sense of the term): acts performed as calls upon others to form a joint perspective. We will explain the inner logic of the call, and in this way show that even when there are no generally valid norms or a generally valid content of the joint perspective (e.g. when the call is directed at those who are not yet a part of the joint perspective), the joint perspective can be constituted via a distribution of responsibility and trust. Finally, we will use the current example of the corona crisis in order to show how this theoretical apparatus can contribute to a better understanding of novel forms of global joint action, as exemplified by the new social movements.

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