The Reflexive Initiative (eBook, PDF)

On the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing
Redaktion: Raffel, Stanley; Sandywell, Barry

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Produktbeschreibung

The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human sciences and philosophical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317433774
• Artikelnr.: 44874039

Autorenporträt

Stanley Raffel is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at Edinburgh University, UK. He taught social theory at this university for over forty years. He has published numerous articles on contemporary and classic social theory in peer reviewed journals and several books. His latest book is The Method of Metaphor. He was also one of the four authors of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry. Barry Sandywell is an Honorary Research Fellow in Social Theory in the Department of Sociology in the University of York, UK. As a well-known teacher and social theorist with an academic career extending to four decades he has published major essays and papers in peer-reviewed journals, books and collections devoted to social analysis and cultural theory. His research has focused upon the history of self-reflection in European culture, the foundations of reflexive social theory, the sociology of philosophy, contemporary cultural theory, visual studies, Continental traditions of philosophy and social thought and, more recently, the investigation of discourse formations, narrative and narratological perspectives in the human sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Editors' Introduction 1. The Origins and Prospects of Analytic
Theorizing Part II: History and Contexts of Analytic Theory 2. Dialectic,
Indebtedness, Ambivalence and the Pursuit of Analytic Speech: Revisiting
'On the Beginning of Social Inquiry' Part III: Topics in Analysis 3.
Analysis and Sincerity: Warding Off Relativism 4. Reunions: Standing and
Turning Relationships 5. Rethinking Art: A Borderline Case 6. Expats 7. The
Complaint: An Analysis Part IV: Dialogical and Dialectical Engagements 8.
Dasein/Analysis: Between Ethnomethodological Heresy and the Continental
Tradition 9. The Analysis School and Feminism: Intersection, Explanation
and a Challenge 10. Collaboration and the Birth of Comedy: From the
Symbolic to the Real in the Development of Analysis 11. Resistance in
Collective and Collaborative Problem Solving 12. Analytic Desire and
Everyday Life: The Practice of Theory in 'On the Beginning of Social
Inquiry' 13. Dialectic, Reflexivity, and Good Troublesome Company Part V:
Origins and Prospects 14. On the Unending Beginning of Social Inquiry
References Index