title: Actions of large bodies and events of communications: The political significance of some sociological categories
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metadata.value: Filippov, Alexander F.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-06T11:12:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-06T11:12:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022
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metadata.value: Filippov A. F. Actions of large bodies and events of communications: The political significance of some sociological categories. Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2022, vol. 3, рр. 54–69. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.104 (In Russian
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44112
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metadata.value: The object of this paper is to compare the philosophical foundations of the three
  most influential sociological concepts of the past century — Max Weber, Talcott
  Parsons and Niklas Luhmann. Although the influence of Weber on Parsons and
  Parsons on Luhmann is undeniable, the differences between them are fundamental.
  Each of the concepts is based on a special philosophical intuition, all of them also
  have a political character. To explain this, we introduce the philosophically vague,
  but intuitively understandable term “large body”, that is, one that is distinguishable
  without special instruments. For Weber, such large bodies turn out to be people
  acting, as he calls them. The famous concept of “social action” means the action of a
  large body, because such an actor is located in the space of a political union, within
  which the hierarchy of goods is built, that is, the area of possible goals. Thus Weber’s theory of action presupposes a theory of the state. Parsons’ theory of action systems
  is at first constructed quite differently. In accepting Weber’s schemes, Parsons refuses
  to study a single action as a concrete event in space and time. Instead, drawing on the
  philosophy of A. N. Whitehead, he proposes to study action in its temporal aspect.
  Since before the action, the goals are only imagined, not existing in reality, here
  open up the prospects of a completely original concept of action, in which not only
  there will be no space of large bodies, but also the usual time of physical events. But
  Parsons does not hold on to this height, and in later writings returns again to acting
  as an organism that political power can reach and use force against. Only Luhmann,
  with his intuition of world society and the incorporeal events of communication,
  breaks away from the traditions of European political thinking. He manages to build
  a logically more coherent concept. But it turns out to be vulnerable when you have
  to think again about territories and regions, that is, about the spaces of large bodies.
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metadata.value: The article was written as part of the project of the HSE University Center for
  Fundamental Sociology “The new societal communities of the global world: Affects and
  the cultural legitimation of differences”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philosophy of the History of Philosophy;Volume 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Max Weber
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Parsons
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Luhmann
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social action
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social event
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: world society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: action system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Actions of large bodies and events of communications: The political significance of some sociological categories
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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