Infinity, infinite processes and limit concepts: recovering a neglected background of social and critical theory

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dc.contributor.authorStrydom, Piet
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T11:35:52Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T11:35:52Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-29
dc.date.updated2019-02-25T11:31:18Z
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to recover a neglected chapter in the historical and theoretical background of social theory in general and critical theory in particular with a view to refining the understanding of the presuppositions of a cognitively enhanced critical social science appropriate to our troubled times. For this purpose, it offers a brief reconstruction of the mathematical-philosophical tradition from ancient to modern times by extrapolating that part of it that is marked by the ideas of infinity, infinite processes and limit concepts. It gives suggestive indications not only of how these ideas relate to extant social-theoretical thought, but especially also of the two related cognitive directions – the weak-naturalistic and the socio-cultural – in which such thought is currently challenged to go.en
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dc.identifier.citationStrydom, P. (2017) 'Infinity, infinite processes and limit concepts: recovering a neglected background of social and critical theory', Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(8), pp. 793-811. doi:10.1177/0191453717692845en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0191453717692845
dc.identifier.endpage811en
dc.identifier.issn0191-4537
dc.identifier.issn1461-734X
dc.identifier.issued8en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhilosophy and Social Criticismen
dc.identifier.startpage793en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7534
dc.identifier.volume43en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453717692845
dc.rights© 2017, the Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.en
dc.subjectCritical theoryen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectImmanuel Kanten
dc.subjectMathematicsen
dc.subjectWeak naturalismen
dc.titleInfinity, infinite processes and limit concepts: recovering a neglected background of social and critical theoryen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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