There is no need to push the bus. An Analysis of Berger- Luckmann's Philosophy without Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI1901063K UDC 316.2 Original scientific paper
Abstract
This paper examines the theoretical decision of Berger and Luckmann to place and develope the question of social constructionism on the other side of philosophy. By the immanent textual analysis, within the relevant epistemological environment, it is shown that their position is rich in philosophical assumptions and consequences, and the most problematic is the abolition of the autonomy of the intentional objectivity. Both the exclusion of philosophy and the unreflective “dealing“ with her exposed Berger-Luckman’s social constructionism to serious, in this paper raised objections.
Key words: Social constructionism, Berger-Luckmann, interpretationalism, epistemology, Realism
References
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Huserl, Edmund. 1967. Filosofija kao stroga nauka. Beograd: Kultura.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1990. Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck).
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1993. Hermeneutik II. Wahrheit und Methode. Ergänzungen. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck).
Jäger, Mechtold. 2001. „Was ist Begründung? Schwierigkeiten durch den Primat Pragmatik vor Semantik am Beispiel des Erlanger/Konstanzer Konstruktivismus.“ Journal for General Philosophy of Science 32/1: 167–192.
Kremer, Hans. 2010. Kritika hermeneutike. Filosofija intrpretacije i realizam. Novi Sad: Akademska knjiga.
Published
29.05.2019.
How to Cite
KOPRIVICA, Časlav.
There is no need to push the bus. An Analysis of Berger- Luckmann's Philosophy without Philosophy.
Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, [S.l.], v. 67, n. 1, p. 63-76, may 2019.
ISSN 2334-8259.
Available at: <https://www.ei.sanu.ac.rs/index.php/gei/article/view/793>. Date accessed: 07 oct. 2025.
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Scientific papers
