2 Sketching Out an Emancipatory Discourse: Corruption, Political Spaces and Social Imaginaries
Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Chapter two SketChing out an emanCipatory DiSCourSe: Corruption, politiCal SpaCeS anD SoCial imaginarieSHere, then, is the paradox in the search for civil society at the century's end.The very fertility of the Idea-its broad, transnational appeal as a trope of moral imagining-stems from its polyvalence: its capacity to condense distinct doctrines and ethical strains in a fan of pliable associations that can be variously distilled and infinitely elaborated [. ..].The more inchoate and polymorphous, the more appealing: the more appealing, the less attainable in any substantive, meaningful form.[. ..].As Durkheim said long ago, the ritual of conjuring with resonant signs is a condition of the very possibility of imagining society, sui generis.1But if there is no ground of the social, any historical intervention will be the work of limited historical agents.This limitation, however, is more than compensated for by a new freedom that social agents win as they become the creators of their own world.2
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Lucy Koechlin
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2491122018