Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Connection Between Language and Social Construction
I accept the general premise that there's probably, and especially reinforced by Wes's research, that the concept of social construction is not authoritatively established. Once all of this breaks down, we have a serious, serious problem on our hands, and we have to figure out what to do. And clearly, I mean, Nietzsche was worried about the same sort of problems, right? The advent of nihilism. So I found the readings to be very useful, informative, I think.
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