Omvänd ändamålsrationalitet. Urmänniska och upplevelsesamhälle

Authors

  • Carl-Göran Heidegren Lunds universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.32.18578

Abstract

Inverted goal-rationality. Umensch and Erlebnis-society

The article takes its point of departure in a recent attempt at a synthesis in the sociology of culture by Gerhard Schulze. It focuses on the concept of Erlebnis-rationality, i.e. acting aimed at bringing about an intended change of one’s inner subjective state. This concept is related to a fundamental category in Arnold Gehlens anthropology and theory of action: Umkehr der Antriebsrichtung, that I choose to call ”inverted goal-rationality”. Gehlen traces this kind of action - in the form of orgiastic and ascetic ecstasies - back to the beginnings of mankind. Inverted goal-rationality is today a central and wide-spread orientation in the life of Western man - e.g. in the form of consumption for the purpose of having a certain positive Erlebnis. Finally, the article poses the question what it means for a society that an inverted goal-rationality has attained such a central position.

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Published

1995-01-01

How to Cite

Heidegren, Carl-Göran. 1995. “Omvänd ändamålsrationalitet. Urmänniska Och upplevelsesamhälle”. Sociologisk Forskning 32 (1):24-30. https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.32.18578.

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Vol. 32 No. 1 (1995)

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