UDC

111.8

DOI

10.17238/issn2227-6564.2019.4.100

Authors

Zhanna V. Latysheva
Vladimir State University; ul. Gor’kogo 87, Vladimir, 600000, Russian Federation; e-mail: joan_lat@mail.ru

Abstract

This article examines the problem of social transcending as one of the most important conditions for achieving social stability and unity and as a method of implementing social integration. Consideration of transcending in the social aspect is a very promising task in view of the importance and insufficient elaboration of this problem. One of the necessary sources that make up the theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the socio-phenomenological theory of transcendences of Alfred Schütz and Thomas Luckmann. Based on its study, a phenomenological interpretation of social transcendences is formed, and the essential features of social transcending are identified. Highlighting the three types of transcendences – “small”, “medium” and “great” – Schütz and Luckmann show that only “medium” and “great” transcendences have a social nature. However, all three of these varieties are appresented through indications, signs and symbols. “Medium” transcendences are intersubjective, present in the world of everyday life, pointing to the unknown sides of the Other. Intersubjective transcendences are insurmountable, but through perception by analogy, probabilistic understanding of the Other is possible, and the experience of the Other is experienced in the communicative situation of the We-relationship. The “great” transcendences – sleep, dreams, ecstasy, death, theoretical orientations – are associated with extraordinary reality, marking a decisive departure from the borders of everyday life. This departure can be implemented both step by step and in the form of jumps, both chaotically, and planned and systematically. In an effort to overcome “medium” and “great” transcendences as something inexplicable and unpredictable, and therefore socially dangerous, people creatively interpret them in various communicative situations, linking them with certain meanings. In the course of this process, semantic organization and streamlining of society takes place, strengthening its security and stability. The article concludes that social transcending is communicative and semantic in nature and appears as such in various spheres of social creativity: science, art, religion, philosophy, etc.

Keywords

social transcendence, social transcending, intersubjectivity, Other, A. Schütz, T. Luckmann

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