Zwrot ontologiczny w naukach społecznych jako próba pomyślenia nowego porządku społeczno-politycznego ludzi i rzeczy
The Ontological Turn in the Social Sciences as an Attempt to Conceptualize a New Social and Political Order of Humans and Things

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to try to conceptualise a new political order – one separated from the individualism and profit considered in neoliberal narration, which seems to be based on the epistemological tradition. The author uses the theories of Bruno Latour and Andrzej W. Nowak to visualise how, via an “ontological turn” in the social sciences, a new social and political order, opposed to neoliberalism and capitalism, could be conceived. The philosophical foundation to which the author will refer is Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, particularly as read by Gilles Deleuze. The new order within “the ontological turn” will be shown as a practical approach which does not appropriate objects but uses them as part of wider thing–human relations. These are ties between humans but also between humans and things, considered as an assemblage of these components. This is a project of non-substantial metaphysics in which the hierarchy of beings based on private property is rejected.

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