Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory

Anders Buchholds a professorship in technological expert cultures at Aalborg University Copenhagen at the Department for Learning and Philosophy. He has published articles and books on knowledge, learning, education, professionalism, and the professional development of engineers. He is editor-in-chief of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. Theodore R. Schatzki is Professor of Geography and Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of, among other works, Social Practices (1996), The Site of the Social (2002), and The Timespace of Human Activity (2010) and coeditor of The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001) and The Nexus of Practices (2017).

"This remarkable collection brings together a distinguished group of sociologists, philosophers, and learning theorists to present the current state of practice theory and its relation to pragmatism in their respective fields." – Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA

• Introduction. Questions of Practice: Related Perspectives from Pragmatism and Practice TheoryAnders Buch and Theodore R. SchatzkiPart I: Practices and the Practical Dimension1. Bodily Postures and the Normativity of Niche Construction PracticesJoseph Rouse2. Action, Practice, and Theory: Toward a Pragmatist Practice PhilosophyEmil Višňovský3. On Plural ActionsTheodore R. Schatzki4 Narrative Understanding and Originary TemporalityWilliam BlattnerPart II: Normativity5. Practices, Technae, and Two-Dimensional NormsMark Okrent6. Professionalism, Practice, and Knowledge PolicyAnders Buch and Hans Siggaard Jensen7. Pragmatist Aesthetics and the Experience of TechnologyDavid L. Hildebrand8. Somaesthetic Practice and the Question of NormsRichard ShustermanPart III: Transformation9. From Crisis to Experiment. Bourdieu & Dewey on Research Practice & CooperationTanja Bogusz10. Practices We Know By--Knowledge as TransformativeAntje Gimmler11. Practices of Self-NegationMustafa Emirbayer12. Making Much of Doing with Hearts, Heads & HandsCharlene Seigfried13. Reflections on the use of positioning theory in the sociology of intellectualsPatrick Baert