edited by Theodore R. Schatzki, Karin Knorr Cetina, and Eike von Savigny.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (252 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
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Based on a conference held Jan. 4-6, 1996 at the University of Bielefeld.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: practice theory; Practice as collective action; Human practices and the observability of the 'macro-social'; Practice mind-ed orders; Pragmatic regimes governing the engagement with the world; What anchors cultural practices; Wittgenstein and the priority of practice; What is tacit knowledge?; Throwing out the tacit rule book: learning and practices; Ethnomethodology and the logic of practice
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How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence theory of truth with respect to the entities of natural sciencePractice and posthumanism: social theory and a history of agency; Objectual practice; Two concepts of practices; Derridian dispersion and Heideggerian articulation: general tendencies in the practices that govern intelligibility; Bibliography; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.