This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical thought. Brilliantly organised and abounding with astonishing insights, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason offers a fundamental challenge to our normal ways of viewing social thought.
This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the tradi...
The author continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse in this volume, with special reference to pre-Socratic philosophy and science, and their socio-political context.
The author continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse in this volume, with special reference to pre-S...
The role of the visual and human perception is increasingly being seen as central to an understanding of the contemporary human condition. This text brings together the writings of experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, this collection presents material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Topics covered include: the hermeneutics of seeing; the visual rhetoric of modernity; the drawings...
The role of the visual and human perception is increasingly being seen as central to an understanding of the contemporary human condition. This text b...
Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Among topics covered are: * the visual rhetoric of modernity * the drawings of Bonnard * recent feminist art * practices and perception in arts and ethics.
Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies...
This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical thought. Brilliantly organised and abounding with astonishing insights, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason offers a fundamental challenge to our normal ways of viewing social thought.
This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the tradi...
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a 'social' activity. It is essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors' main concern here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the 'difference' between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and Speech. The...
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a 'social' activity. It is essentially a collabor...
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. Forty years after the publication of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry, the chapters in this collection range from re-appraisals of earlier essays on topics such as reunions, rethinking art and expats to contributions emphasising the opening of radical dialogues with other reflexive traditions and...
The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance ...
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a social activity. It is essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors main concern here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the difference between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and Speech. The...
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a social activity. It is essentially a collabo...
This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundations and motivations of current theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today. It also offers insight...
This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundatio...
