{"product_id":"making-the-social-world-the-structure-of-human-civilization-9780199829521","title":"Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization","description":"There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe paradox he addresses in \u003cem\u003eMaking the Social World\u003c\/em\u003e is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book \u003cem\u003eThe Construction of Social Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all \"institutional facts.\" His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSearle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a \"state of nature\" for language-using human beings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Searle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199829521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Searle\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley. His eighteen books include \u003cem\u003eMind, Speech Acts, Intentionality\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Construction of Social Reality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40797504536691,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":51.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_65df2cdc-1c78-4df1-bfd0-654b9259769b.jpg?v=1682001707","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/making-the-social-world-the-structure-of-human-civilization-9780199829521","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}