THE SENSED AND THE UN-SENSED

Individual bodily experience has been excluded from Western general social-scientific discourse and this has led to prejudices about the relation between individuals and the concept of society. Scientific concepts like pluralization, generalization, and abstraction are described against the background of classifications imposed on individual bodies. The central argument is that social science hardly develops because it fails to distinguish generalizations from abstractions, despite linguistic suggestions in modernist thought. Instead, Western social science has become a self-imprisoned, institutionalized structure. Letters to various scientists create a dramatic postmodern critique.