3.1. Intenzionalità e documentalità

On the basis of a critique of the notion of collective intentionality employed by John Searle to explain social reality, the article argues Searle’s constitutive rule that, for social objects “X counts as Y in C” raises more problems than it solves. Searle was perfectly right to say that Derrida’s f...

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Main Author: Maurizio Ferraris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2012-04-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1706
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spelling doaj-f5f3e7abd73d41e8a34ca273022a6f942020-11-25T02:44:49ZengRosenberg & SellierRivista di Estetica0035-62122421-58642012-04-014916118210.4000/estetica.17063.1. Intenzionalità e documentalitàMaurizio FerrarisOn the basis of a critique of the notion of collective intentionality employed by John Searle to explain social reality, the article argues Searle’s constitutive rule that, for social objects “X counts as Y in C” raises more problems than it solves. Searle was perfectly right to say that Derrida’s formula “there is nothing outside the text” is false. But we can vindicate (and emend) Derrida by saying “ there is nothing social outside the text”: social objects are identified with the inscrbed acts that give rise to them.http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1706
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description On the basis of a critique of the notion of collective intentionality employed by John Searle to explain social reality, the article argues Searle’s constitutive rule that, for social objects “X counts as Y in C” raises more problems than it solves. Searle was perfectly right to say that Derrida’s formula “there is nothing outside the text” is false. But we can vindicate (and emend) Derrida by saying “ there is nothing social outside the text”: social objects are identified with the inscrbed acts that give rise to them.
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