The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Practices and Social Orders 1. Practices as Collective Action Barry Barnes 2.
Human Practices and the Observability of the 'Macrosocial' Jeff Coulter 3.
Practice Mind-ed Orders Theodore R. Schatzki 4. Pragmatic Regimes Governing the
Engagement Laurent Thevenot 5. What Anchors Cultural Practices Ann SwidlerII.
Inside Practices 6. Wittgenstein and the Priority of Practice David Bloor 7.
What is Tacit Knowledge H.M. Collins 8, Throwing Out the Tacit Rule Book:
Learning and Practices Stephen Turner 9. Ethnomethodology and the Logic of
Practice Michael Lynch III. Posthumanist Challenges 10. How Heidegger Defends
the Possibility of a Correspondence Theory of Truth with Respect to the Entities
of Natural Science Huber L. Dreyfus 11. Practice and Posthumanism: Social Theory
and a History of Agency Andrew Pickering 12. Objectual Practice Karin Knorr
Cetina 13. Two Concepts of Practices Joseph Rouse 14. Derridian Dispersion and
Heideggerian Articulation: General Tendencies in the Practices that Govern
Intelligibilty Charles Spinosa Bibilography Index 

Autoreninfo

Theodore R. Schatzki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA. Karin Knorr-Cetina is Professor of Sociology and Eike von Savigny is Professor of Philosophy, both at the University of Bielefield, Germany.