Reflexivity And The Crisis of Western Reason: Logological Investigations: Volume One

by Barry Sandywell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415087568
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/1995
Series:	Logological Investigations Series , #1
Pages:	550
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Barry Sandywell is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York.

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION; Part I MIMESIS; Chapter 1 RHETORICS OF REPRESENTATION; Chapter 2 THE EPOCH OF REPRESENTATION; Part II REFLECTION; Chapter 3 GENERIC REFLECTION; Chapter 4 CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE-WORLD; Chapter 5 REFLECTION AS SPECULATIVE THOUGHT; Part III REFLEXIVITY; Chapter 6 THE REFLEXIVE SELF; Chapter 7 BEING-IN-THE-WORLD AS INCARNATE REFLEXIVITY; Chapter 8 PRAXICAL REFLEXIVITY; Chapter 9 PHRONETIC REFLEXIVITY: BETWEEN MORALITY AND PRAXIS; Part IV DIALOGUE; Chapter 10 GENEALOGICAL SELF-REFLEXIVITY; Chapter 11 TRANSACTIONAL REFLEXIVITY; Chapter 12 DIALOGICAL REFLEXIVITY; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHYIndex; Subject Index;

Editorial Reviews

Launching a series devoted to the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection, Sandywell (sociology, U. of York) traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social, and philosophical thought. He contends that such an examination requires an exploration of the force field between the discourses of reflection and reflexivity, which in turn requires radical self-investigations of the role of reflexivity in human experience and the language, practices, and institutions of self-reflection in western culture. This achieved, he introduces a method for analyzing the crucial transformation of thought from a videological to dialogical conception of the world. The analytic method provides a framework for the detailed studies of premodern, modern, and postmodern form of reflexivity to be presented in subsequent volumes of the series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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