Knorr Cetina / Schatzki / von Savigny The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-58629-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knorr Cetina, Karin

Schatzki, Theodore R.

von Savigny, Eike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

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 Swidler

II. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.