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Podmiotowość i ład instytucjonalny
Subjectivity and institutional order

Author(s): Jerzy Hausner
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie we współpracy z Wydawnictwem Naukowym Scholar
Keywords: subjectivity; action; knowledge; rationality (ends and means); institutions (norms); system (social order)

Summary/Abstract: In the Cracow Circle, we have dealt with the links between self, cognition, and action. It seems to me that the issue of subjectivity is key for the understanding of interactions between these categories. Knowledge and action should not be divorced from the subject. Th ere is no subject without knowledge. Th ere is no subject without action. However, the relationships between the subject, knowledge and action are neither linear nor simple. Th ere is no place for a causeeff ect sequence or determinism. The author discusses subjectivity in the context of social relationships and interactions. From this point of view, subjectivity is a component of the social order and without subjectivity, or more accurately, without the existence of a number of social subjects, social order cannot emerge or last and evolve.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish