The practice turn in contemporary theory /
edited by Theodore R. Schatzki, Karin Knorr Cetina, and Eike von Savigny.
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- ix, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
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.