The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

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Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny
Routledge, Jun 20, 2005 - Philosophy - 252 pages
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.
 

Contents

Practice as collective action
17
Practice minded orders
42
Pragmatic regimes governing the engagement with the world
56
What anchors cultural practices
74
Wittgenstein and the priority of practice
95
Ethnomethodology and the logic of practice
131
How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence
151
Objectual practice
175
Two concepts of practices
189
Bibliography
213
Index
231
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Theodore R. Schatzki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA. Karin Knorr-Cetina is Professor of Sociology and Eike von Savigny is Professor of Philosophy, both at the University of Bielefield, Germany.

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