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Chapter 6 - Two Types of Social Normativity

from Part II - Forms of Being-With

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2023

Nicolai K. Knudsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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In contrast to the small-scale we of shared action, this chapter analyses the large-scale and temporally prolonged we’s of communities governed by social norms. Drawing on Heidegger’s analysis of the Anyone and of historicity, I distinguish between anonymous social normativity and historical social normativity. Anonymous social normativity provides a set of social norms in the form of a relatively stable, socially inflected comportmental pattern that we assume to be a universal default. However, this kind of social normativity comes with only a minimal awareness of its own nature, extent, and origin. Historical social normativity, on the other hand, implies a historical awareness in which social norms are disclosed as historical and hence as fragile and contestable. For Heidegger, this leads to the proto-political possibility of what I call communal commitments—roughly, commitments in which a group of people commit themselves to sustain a particular set of social norms across generations.

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Heidegger's Social Ontology
The Phenomenology of Self, World, and Others
, pp. 159 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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