TY  - CHAP
A1  - Terrier, Jean
T1  - On social forces : tension as a metaphor and the image of society
T2  - Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1
N2  - This article conceptualizes tension as a relation between elements in which at least two forces with different directions are involved. How can this concept of tension be applied to the analysis of the peculiar logic of life in common? The article offers a reading, inspired by the method of conceptual history, of the use of the concept of 'force' in three models of society: Hobbes's political model, the economic model proposed by the thinkers of commercial society, and Durkheim's social theory. The analysis sheds some light on the ways in which the presence of contradictory forces can be taken to be constitutive of the social itself. This observation is then used to suggest that the puzzling fascination exerted by the notion of tension can be better understood if we see it pointing to some fundamental features of our way of collectively inhabiting the world.
KW  - Spannung
KW  - Hume, David
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas
KW  - Durkheim, Émile
KW  - Sozialphilosophie
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Tension
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51418
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514187
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/terrier_on-social-forces.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-616-1
SP  - 185
EP  - 205
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -