Social fiction and the discrediting of discourse

Fiction sociale et dépréciation de la parole

Marlyse Pouchol
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Marlyse Pouchol: URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Arendt reminds that society is a fiction. It is a theoretical object invented and endowed with a principle of imaginary unity, such as the invisible hand or the social contract whose main fault is to ignore that humans are speaking beings. These images, which are in themselves only a theoretic process, become problematic when they are taken for facts. And if it comes the project to install a social ideal in reality, this can only be done by seeking to eliminate communication between people.

Keywords: invisible hand; social contract (contrat social); devaluation of ordinary language; the theorist’s language; Social fiction; Fiction sociale; main invisible; contrat social; dévalorisation du langage ordinaire; langage savant; Arendt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-13
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2018, 2018 – 1 (n° 5), pp.139-157. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08068-8.p.0139⟩

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DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08068-8.p.0139

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