Based on a conference held Jan. 4-6, 1996 at the University of Bielefeld.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index.

Introduction
Part I Practices and social orders
Chapter 1 Practice as collective action By BARRY BARNES
Chapter 2 Human practices and the observability of the
‘macro-social’
Chapter 3 Practice mind-ed orders ByTHEODORE R. SCHATZKI
Chapter 4 Pragmatic regimes governing the engagement with the world By LAURENT THÉVENOT
Chapter 5 What anchors cultural practices By ANN SWIDLER
Part II Inside practices
Chapter 6 Wittgenstein and the priority of practice By DAVID BLOOR
Chapter 7 What is tacit knowledge? By H.M.COLLINS
Chapter 8 Throwing out the tacit rule book
Chapter 9 Ethnomethodology and the logic of practice
By MICHAEL LYNCH
Part III Posthumanist challenges
Chapter 10 How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence theory of truth with respect to the entities of natural science By HUBERT L. DREYFUS
Chapter 11 Practice and posthumanism
Chapter 12 Objectual practice By KARIN KNORR CETINA
Chapter 13 Two concepts of practices By JOSEPH ROUSE
Chapter 14 Derridian dispersion and Heideggerian articulation

This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology.