Review of F. De Vecchi, La società in persona. Ontologia sociale qualitativa

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dc.check.date2027-02-26en
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dc.contributor.authorRuggeri, Cinziaen
dc.contributor.editorHopkins, Burt C.en
dc.contributor.editorDe Santis, Danieleen
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-16T13:55:58Z
dc.date.available2025-09-16T13:55:58Z
dc.date.issued2025-08-26
dc.description.abstractIn this remarkable monograph Francesca De Vecchi applies insights from the phenomenological tradition (particularly from Husserl and Scheler) to develop a qualitative social ontology. As the author succinctly explains in the introduction, the main aim of the book is to develop an ontology of the social world that provides an account of our being, living, and acting in the world as personal subjects together with others. Two themes can be singled out as central to De Vecchi’s project: the phenomenological concept of the person and the relation between the person and the axiologically qualified things that populate her social world. The author’s main intuition is that we, as persons, do not experience the things of the world as bare things: namely, as mere physical (spatio-temporally located) objects or just as sensible (sensorially perceivable) objects, but rather as objects constantly endowed with values or disvalues (negative values). Consequently, De Vecchi advocates for combining a qualitative ontology of things, that is, an ontology that focuses on the axiological nature of the things of the world, with qualitative social ontology, namely a social ontology that accounts for the axiological relation that persons have with their social sphere. In so doing, De Vecchi provides us with a fascinating, convincing, and though-provoking way of re-conceptualising the relation between the person and the social world.en
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dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationRuggeri, C. (2025) 'Review of F. De Vecchi, La società in persona. Ontologia sociale qualitativa', in Hopkins, B. C and De Santis, D. (eds.) The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 23(1-2). London: Routledge, pp. 365-375. Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003647805-24/review-de-vecchi-la-societ%C3%A0-persona-ontologia-sociale-qualitativa-cinzia-ruggeri (Accessed: 16 September 2025)en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003647805-24en
dc.identifier.endpage375en
dc.identifier.isbn9781003647805en
dc.identifier.issued1-2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophyen
dc.identifier.startpage365en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17876
dc.identifier.volume23en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003647805-24/review-de-vecchi-la-societ%C3%A0-persona-ontologia-sociale-qualitativa-cinzia-ruggerien
dc.rights© 2025, the Author. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book review published by Routledge on 26 August 2025 in Hopkins, B. C and De Santis, D. (eds.) The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 23(1-2). Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003647805-24/review-de-vecchi-la-societ%C3%A0-persona-ontologia-sociale-qualitativa-cinzia-ruggerien
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFrancesca De Vecchien
dc.subjectLa società in persona. Ontologia sociale qualitativaen
dc.subjectQ2025ualitative social ontologyen
dc.subject~Law - Book chapters~en
dc.titleReview of F. De Vecchi, La società in persona. Ontologia sociale qualitativaen
dc.typeReviewen
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