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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459612803321

Autore

Bauer Martin W.

Titolo

Resistance and the practice of rationality / / by Martin W. Bauer, Rom Harré and Carl Jensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6966-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

128.33

Soggetti

Practical reason

Electronic books.

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF BOXES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE; PART I: RESISTANCE IN THE NATURAL-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II: RESISTANCE IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III: RESISTANCE IN THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL SCIENCES; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART IV: RESISTANCE IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS AND LAW; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; AFTERWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Resistance used to mean irrational and reactionary behaviour, assuming that rationality resides on the side of progress and its parties. The end of the Cold War allows us to drop ideological and prejudicial analysis. Indeed, we recognise that resistance is a historical constant, and its relation to rationality or irrationality is not predetermined. This volume asks: to what extent are social scientific conceptions of 'resistances' sui generis, or borrowed from natural sciences by metaphor an...