Toward an Ontology of Social Communities: With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities

Gerda Walther

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Toward an Ontology of Social Communities

With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities

Gerda Walther
Edited by: Sebastian Luft and Rodney K.B. Parker
With contributions by: Sebastian Luft and Rodney K.B. Parker
Translated by: Sebastian Luft and Rodney K.B. Parker

Languages: English, German

Published/Copyright: 2025

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This is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement.

The work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl’s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl, Heideger, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology, i.e., a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method, that is, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements), how it relates to other individuals or other communities, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place.

The book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory, cognitive science, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research.

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Pioneering study of the nature of the social world

Author was student of Edmund Husserl

Important work of early phenomenology

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Sebastian Luft, Paderborn University, Germany; Rodney K.B. Parker, King’s University College, UWO, Ontario, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Translators’ Introduction Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Translators’ Notes Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
Toward an Ontology of Social Communities.
Preface Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
1 Introduction: The Task and Method of Ontology and Phenomenology Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
2 Ontological Delimitation of the Essence of Social Community on the First Level of the Social Community “In Itself” Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
3 The Community “In and for Itself” on the Second Level Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
4 Appendix on the Main Traits of the Phenomenological Constitution of Communities Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Curriculum Vitae Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Zur Ontologie der sozialen Gemeinschaften
Vorwort Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
A Einleitung. Aufgabe und Methode der Ontologie und Phänomenologie. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
B Ontologische Abgrenzung des Wesens der sozialen Gemeinschaft auf der ersten Stufe der sozialen Gemeinschaft »an sich«. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
C Die Gemeinschaft »an und für sich« auf der zweiten Stufe. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
D Anhang über die Hauptgesichtspunkte für die phänomenologische Konstitution der Gemeinschaften. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	328
Lebenslauf Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Antonio Calcagno, Priyanka Jha and Rodney K. B. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340
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September 22, 2025

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9783110763133

Hardcover published on:

September 8, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110763072

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Max Niemayer Verlag

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370

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eBook ISBN: 9783110763133

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We-intentionality; phenomenology of social communities; communal lived-experiences; social ontology

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Philosophers, sociologists, institutes, libraries

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