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Logic of Marx's Capital
Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
Av Tony Smith
Häftad, 1990
463 kr
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Beginning with "value" and "commodity" at the start of Volume I in Marx's major work, and progressing step-by-step to the end of Volume III, Smith establishes in detail that Capital is a systematic theory of socio-economic categories ordered according to dialectical logic. At each stage in his …
More Studies in Ethnomethodology
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
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Phenomenological analyses of the orderliness of naturally occurring collaboration.Winner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award presented by the …
Social Sensitivity
A Study of Habit and Experience
Häftad, 1990
418 kr
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The author develops a phenomenological theory of the social structure of immediate experience. At the heart of this study is a theory of habitual sensitivity that originates in the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and John Dewey. The author develops this theory as an alternative to Schutz's theory …
Logic of Marx's Capital
Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
Av Tony Smith
Inbunden, 1990
1515 kr
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Beginning with "value" and "commodity" at the start of Volume I in Marx's major work, and progressing step-by-step to the end of Volume III, Smith establishes in detail that Capital is a systematic theory of socio-economic categories ordered according to dialectical logic. At each stage in his …
AIDS Notebooks
Häftad, 1990
455 kr
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This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal …
Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of George Herbert Mead
Häftad, 1991
596 kr
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This book brings together some of the finest recent critical and expository work on Mead, written by American and European thinkers from diverse traditions. For English-speaking audiences it provides an introduction to recent European work on Mead. The essays reveal the richness of Mead's thought, …
Habermas's Critical Theory of Society
Av Jane Braaten
Häftad, 1991
463 kr
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This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society - the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates …
Marx, Hayek, and Utopia
Häftad, 1995
445 kr
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Develops a critique of utopianism through a comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, challenging conventional views of both Marxian and Hayekian thought.This book develops a critique of utopianism through a provocative comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, thus engaging …
Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition
Texts and Commentary
Av John O'Neill
Häftad, 1996
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487 kr
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Presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation in life, labor, and language.This book presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, …
Memory, Identity, Community
The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences
Av Lewis P. Hinchman, Sandra K. Hinchman
Häftad, 1997
662 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences.This anthology documents the resurrection, in the last few decades, of the …
Order Without Rules
Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation
Av David Bogen
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.Order Without Rules establishes the basic terms for a critical discourse between the theory of communicative action and the tradition of …
Woodcutters and Witchcraft
Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social Sciences
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Uncovers the methodological principles that govern interpretive change.Well written and richly illustrated with vivid examples from Wittgenstein's woodcutters to witchcraft in Mexico and elsewhere, this book argues that the underlying methodological principle governing interpretive change is …
Ricoeur as Another
The Ethics of Subjectivity
Av Richard A. Cohen, James L. Marsh
Häftad, 2002
463 kr
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Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.This collection of essays by internationally known Paul Ricoeur experts explores the noted philosopher's book, Oneself as Another. Ricoeur's book represents the completion of a decades-long inquiry into the self as he links …
Ricoeur's Critical Theory
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.In Ricoeur's Critical Theory, David M. Kaplan revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debates to show how Paul Ricoeur's narrative-hermeneutics and moral-political philosophy provide a superior interpretive, …
Ricoeur's Critical Theory
Häftad, 2003
619 kr
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The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.In Ricoeur's Critical Theory, David M. Kaplan revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debates to show how Paul Ricoeur's narrative-hermeneutics and moral-political philosophy provide a superior interpretive, …
Marx and Whitehead
Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism
Häftad, 2004
463 kr
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A reading of Marx's critique of capitalism through the lens of process philosophy.Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of …
Practice and the Human Sciences
The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care
Inbunden, 2004
1535 kr
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Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using …
Karl Popper and the Social Sciences
Häftad, 2006
357 kr
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The first systematic treatment of Karl Popper's contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.This is the first book-length exploration of Karl Popper's often-neglected contributions to the philosophy of social science. William A. Gorton situates Popper's ideas on social inquiry within the …
Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy
Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought
Av Suzanne L. Cataldi, William S. Hamrick
Häftad, 2007
463 kr
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Connects the work of Merleau-Ponty to environmental studies.This richly diverse collection looks at the contemporary relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to environmental issues and builds a coherent philosophical ecology based on his thought. The contributors describe and analyze …
Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences
Häftad, 1988
532 kr
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This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations.Using literary criticism, philosophy, and history, as well as recent developments in the cognitive and social sciences, Narrative Knowing and the …
More Studies in Ethnomethodology
Inbunden, 2013
1258 kr
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Phenomenological analyses of the orderliness of naturally occurring collaboration.Winner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award presented by the …
Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture
Inbunden, 1993
1111 kr
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Here we have, for the first time in a single volume, diverse perspectives on the meaning, conditions, and goals of critical reasoning in contemporary culture. Part One emphasizes critical reasoning and education, engaging the debate over the connection between critical reasoning skills and the …
Psychology and Nihilism
A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind
Av Fred Evans
Inbunden, 1992
1111 kr
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Reveals its hidden nihilistic assumptions and proposes a richer vision of human thought grounded in lived experience and "transfigurative rationality."In an age increasingly defined by technocratic thinking and mechanistic models of the mind, Psychology and Nihilism challenges the very foundations …
Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences
Häftad, 1993
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Henderson examines the foundations of an analytic social science approach to develop a well-integrated account of the human sciences, focusing on the pivotal notions of interpretation and explanation. The author acknowledges the importance of interpretive understanding in the human sciences, and …
Ideology and False Consciousness
Marx and His Historical Progenitors
Häftad, 1993
401 kr
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In this book Christopher Pines demonstrates that Karl Marx conceived of ideology as false consciousness. He shows how the different meanings of false consciousness found in the writings of Marx and Engels reflect the influence of the views of the Baconian-French Enlightenment and of Hegelian …
Critique, Action, and Liberation
Häftad, 1994
437 kr
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Critique, Action, and Liberation is an original work in critical social theory that develops an approach to and method for social and political science. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Marcuse, Adorno, Offe, Marx, and David Harvey, Marsh develops an ethics and a social phenomenology of the self as …
Recovering Pragmatism's Voice
The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication
Av Lenore Langsdorf, Andrew R. Smith
Häftad, 1994
422 kr
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This book focuses on what pragmatism tells us about the nature and function of communication. Its goals are to recover a singular voice of pragmatism, and to identify and develop alternative methods and aims for the philosophy of communication. It shows how pragmatism assumes and proposes a …
Rethinking Knowledge
Reflections Across the Disciplines
Av Robert F. Goodman, Walter R. Fisher
Inbunden, 1995
1111 kr
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An exploration of modernism and postmodernism in regard to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reasonThis book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations …
Rethinking Knowledge
Reflections Across the Disciplines
Av Robert F. Goodman, Walter R. Fisher
Häftad, 1995
393 kr
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An exploration of modernism and postmodernism in regard to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reasonThis book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations …
Marx, Hayek, and Utopia
Inbunden, 1995
1111 kr
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Develops a critique of utopianism through a comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, challenging conventional views of both Marxian and Hayekian thought.This book develops a critique of utopianism through a provocative comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, thus engaging …
