Epistemological and political tensions from philosophical notes to (re)locate Desire and Otherness: reflections for social work research

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Keywords:

Otherness
desire
Lévinas
social work

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Issue: No. 18 (2019): TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, Enero 2019
Section: Artículos de investigación empírica

Abstract

From a critical perspective on positivism and its long-lasting tradition in Social Work, this article aims to demonstrate a link between social work and philosophy by analyzing the world of human and intersubjective relations from Levinas’s philosophical “paradigm of the meeting”. This paradigm offers new insights into rethinking the social from the sense of desire that comes from the Other. Certain Levinasian presuppositions about the human, intersubjectivity, Desire and the Other, their interaction and their relational world are analyzed by revealing that a social world exists before any attempt at objectification and epistemic understanding of things, events, as well as tensions in our political life. Critiquing the conceptualization of scientific/epistemic evidence as a mere calculation of political action, the article reflects on the epistemological-political problem in social work research, such as its pursuit of producing objective positivistic knowledge as well as its thematization regarding our social and political coexistence in the use of rights.

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Borja Castro-Serrano
Castro-Serrano, B. (2019). Epistemological and political tensions from philosophical notes to (re)locate Desire and Otherness: reflections for social work research. TS Cuadernos De Trabajo Social, (18). Retrieved from https://tscuadernosdetrabajosocial.cl/index.php/TS/article/view/154

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