书目名称 | Imposed Rationality and Besieged Imagination |
副标题 | Practical Life and S |
编辑 | Gustavo Pereira |
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概述 | Only book dealing with the cognitive processes that underlie non-conscious distortions in applying justice.Explains how our beliefs about a good life can be distorted and lead us to follow a life cent |
丛书名称 | Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations |
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描述 | .Social pathologies are social processes that hinder how individuals exercise their autonomy and freedom. In this book, Gustavo Pereira offers an account of such phenomena by defining them as a cognitive failure that affects the practical imagination, thus negatively interfering with our practical life. This failure of the imagination is the consequence of the imposition of a type of practical rationality on a practical context alien to it, caused by a non‑conscious transformation of the individuals’ set of beliefs and values. The research undertaken provides an innovative explanation in terms of microfoundations based on the mechanism of “availability heuristic”, by which the diminished exercise of the imagination turns the intuitively available or prevailing rationality into the one that regulates behaviour in inappropriate contexts. Additionally, this incorrect regulation results in a progressive distortion of the shared sense of the affected practical contexts, which becomes institutionalized. ..Consumerism, bureaucratism, moralism, juridification, some forms of corruption and the particular Latin American case of “malinchism” can be interpreted as social pathologies insofar as |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Social structures and relationships; Concept of practical imagination; Relationship between practical |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26520-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-26522-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-26520-5Series ISSN 2352-8370 Series E-ISSN 2352-8389 |
issn_series | 2352-8370 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |