Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032094984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Anders Buch; Theodore Schatzki

Opis

This volume brings together prominent philosophers and sociologists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of convergences and parallels between pragmatism and practice theory.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

Introduction. Questions of Practice: Related Perspectives from Pragmatism and Practice Theory

Anders Buch and Theodore R. Schatzki

Part I: Practices and the Practical Dimension

1. Bodily Postures and the Normativity of Niche Construction Practices

Joseph Rouse

2. Action, Practice, and Theory: Toward a Pragmatist Practice Philosophy

Emil Višňovský

3. On Plural Actions

Theodore R. Schatzki

4 Narrative Understanding and Originary Temporality

William Blattner

Part II: Normativity

5. Practices, Technae, and Two-Dimensional Norms

Mark Okrent

6. Professionalism, Practice, and Knowledge Policy

Anders Buch and Hans Siggaard Jensen

7. Pragmatist Aesthetics and the Experience of Technology

David L. Hildebrand

8. Somaesthetic Practice and the Question of Norms

Richard Shusterman

Part III: Transformation

9. From Crisis to Experiment. Bourdieu & Dewey on Research Practice & Cooperation

Tanja Bogusz

10. Practices We Know By--Knowledge as Transformative

Antje Gimmler

11. Practices of Self-Negation

Mustafa Emirbayer

12. Making Much of Doing with Hearts, Heads & Hands

Charlene Seigfried

13. Reflections on the use of positioning theory in the sociology of intellectuals

Patrick Baert

O autorze

Anders Buch holds 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).