Reflexivity and the crisis of western reason / / Barry Sandywell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170976603321
• Autore: Sandywell Barry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996
• ISBN: 0-585-44908-2; 1-280-07086-2; 1-134-88253-X; 0-203-42017-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (550 p.)
• Collana: Logological investigations ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 301/.01
• Soggetti: Sociology - Philosophy; Reflection (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: by way of a general introduction; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A METACRITIQUE OF PURE REFLECTION; Preliminary reflections on the limits of the modern culture of reflection; The technopoiesis hypothesis; Two paradigms of reflection; Conclusion: from the transparent mirror to the heterological text; RHETORICS OF REPRESENTATION; Four metarhetorical views of language; Language-games; THE EPOCH OF REPRESENTATION; Mimetology: the European construction of the world; The crisis of representation; Pensiero debole; Conclusion: the dialectic of reflection and reflexivityGENERIC REFLECTION; The biogenesis of self-reference; Autopoiesis; Toward an ecological paradigm; CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE-WORLD; Consciousness and subjectivity; The stratification of consciousness; REFLECTION AS SPECULATIVE THOUGHT; The stream of consciousness: the Husserlian lesson; Transcendental reflection: the Heideggerian lesson; Dasein; Intentionality; THE REFLEXIVE SELF; Verbal self-consciousness; Speaking bodies; Thinking bodies; BEING-IN-THE-WORLD AS INCARNATE REFLEXIVITY; Embodied knowledge: the habitus of desire; Positionality: the habitus of eccentric reflexivityEmbodiment: the ; habitus of carnal reflexivity; Knowing-how and praxical reflexivity; PRAXICAL REFLEXIVITY; Logics of practical action; Ethnoreflexivity and mundane reason; Neopraxiology: operative knowledge, techniques, skills; Institutionalized reflexivities; Conclusion: mundane thinking as reasoning practices; PHRONETIC REFLEXIVITY: BETWEEN MORALITY AND PRAXIS; Phronetic reflection; The concept of judgement; Moral self-reflection; Moral relativity; Dramatic reflection; GENEALOGICAL SELF-REFLEXIVITY; Psychoanalytic genealogy; Genealogical therapiesPhenomenological reactivation; Semiotic analysis; Hermeneutic repetition; Critique and metacritique; Deconstruction; TRANSACTIONAL REFLEXIVITY; The sociology of reflexivity; The new sociology of scientific knowledge; Reflexive sociology; Beyond reflexive sociology; DIALOGICAL REFLEXIVITY; Introduction: presuppositional analysis or the logic of question and answer; Culture as a constellation of semiopraxis; Experience as living-in-the-world; Forms of life as contextual phenomena; Logological space as a grid of power; Logological constellations; Logological deconstruction; Conclusion: cultural deconstruction
• Sommario/riassunto: This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourse of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity.