What is a decision? A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

What is a decision? A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Decidedness has been celebrated in many societal spheres as the unquestioned, fetishized and ultimate moment of the exercise of political agency, where political or business leaders wield their powers and authorities. Conversely, the failure to decide, undecidedness, is seen as the failure of political agency, of leadership, and of politics or business itself. This chapter offers a more nuanced perspective on decidedness and undecidedness, by exploring their interdependent relationship, grounded in a deconstructive strategy. The relationship between these binary opposites will be enriched and deepened by introducing a third notion, undecidability, which is a broader concept that describes the ontological impossibility of a discursive order to ultimately ixate reality. In the irst parts of the chapter, the usages of decision and indecision, decidedness and undecidedness, are discussed in combination with an explanation of the notion of undecidability as it has been developed in post-structuralist theory (in particular, in Laclau and Mouffe's discourse-theoretical framework). These relections provide support for the deinition of the decision as a temporary ixation, which does not escape from the context of undecidability. It is this context that produces undecidedness. Decidedness should not be discredited either, as -despite its limitations- it remains a requirement for the political to function and a signiicant driving force. The importance of decidedness, and the coping strategies developed to deal with its failures, is theorized in the last part of the chapter, by reverting to the psychoanalytical concept of the fantasy. The conclusion then invokes the idea that in order to understand the social and the political, we need the conceptual strength of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability.

Název v anglickém jazyce

What is a decision? A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability

Popis výsledku anglicky

Decidedness has been celebrated in many societal spheres as the unquestioned, fetishized and ultimate moment of the exercise of political agency, where political or business leaders wield their powers and authorities. Conversely, the failure to decide, undecidedness, is seen as the failure of political agency, of leadership, and of politics or business itself. This chapter offers a more nuanced perspective on decidedness and undecidedness, by exploring their interdependent relationship, grounded in a deconstructive strategy. The relationship between these binary opposites will be enriched and deepened by introducing a third notion, undecidability, which is a broader concept that describes the ontological impossibility of a discursive order to ultimately ixate reality. In the irst parts of the chapter, the usages of decision and indecision, decidedness and undecidedness, are discussed in combination with an explanation of the notion of undecidability as it has been developed in post-structuralist theory (in particular, in Laclau and Mouffe's discourse-theoretical framework). These relections provide support for the deinition of the decision as a temporary ixation, which does not escape from the context of undecidability. It is this context that produces undecidedness. Decidedness should not be discredited either, as -despite its limitations- it remains a requirement for the political to function and a signiicant driving force. The importance of decidedness, and the coping strategies developed to deal with its failures, is theorized in the last part of the chapter, by reverting to the psychoanalytical concept of the fantasy. The conclusion then invokes the idea that in order to understand the social and the political, we need the conceptual strength of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Politics, Civil Society and Participation : media and communications in a transforming environment

ISBN

978-3-943245-54-7

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

87-103

Počet stran knihy

411

Název nakladatele

edition lumière

Místo vydání

Bremen

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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