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In this third Volume of Logological Investigations, Sandywell
continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of
reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to
pre-Socratic philosophy and science and their socio-political
context.
He begins by criticizing traditional histories of philosophy which
abstract speculative thought from its sociocultural and historical
contexts, and proposes instead an explicitly contextual and
reflexive approach to ancient Greek society and culture.
Each chapter is devoted to a seminal figure or "school" of
reflection in early Greek philosophy. Special emphasis is placed
upon the verbal and rhetorical innovations of protophilosophy in
the sixth and fifth centuries BC. These chapters are also exemplary
displays of the distinctive Logological method of culture analysis
and through them Sandywell shows that by returning to the earliest
problematics of reflexivity in pre-modern culture we may gain an
insight into some of the central currents of modern and postmodern
self-reflection.
This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages
and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for
understanding the foundations and motivations of current
theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms
of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The
book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in
contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary
or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars
of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today.
It also offers insight into the philosophical frameworks which
underpin the field of visual culture. A central theme that runs
throughout the entries is the task of moving away from a narrow
understanding of visuality inherited from traditional philosophy
toward a richer cultural and multi-sensorial philosophy of concrete
experience. The dictionary incorporates intertextual links that
encourage readers to explore connections between major themes,
theories and key figures in the field. In addition the author's
introduction provides a comprehensive and critical introduction
which documents the significance of the visual turn in contemporary
theory and culture. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography
and further reading list. As both a substantive academic
contribution to this growing field and a useful reference tool,
this book offers a theoretical introduction to the many languages
of visual discourse. It will be essential reading for graduate
students and scholars in visual studies, the sociology of visual
culture, cultural and media studies, philosophy, art history and
theory, design, film and communication studies.
The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the
practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates
the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the
investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human
sciences and philosophical perspectives. Forty years after the
publication of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry, the chapters in
this collection range from re-appraisals of earlier essays on
topics such as 'reunions', 'rethinking art' and 'expats' to
contributions emphasising the opening of radical dialogues with
other reflexive traditions and perspectives. These include
psychoanalysis, Lacan, Hegel, Rene Girard, Daseinanalysis,
dialectical method, critical feminism, and the dialogical
tradition. In this dialogical spirit, the book contributes to the
continuing project of analytic theorizing associated with the work
of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh, and the recent turn to more
'existential' topics and politically engaged forms of reflexive
research. It will be of particular use to students working in
interpretive traditions of sociology, Critical theory, Postmodern
thought and debates associated with reflexivity and dialectics in
other disciplines and research programmes.
In this third Volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell
continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of
reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to
pre-Socratic philosophy and science and their socio-political
context.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the
discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences
between the traditional discourses of reflection and the
experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical
thought. Brilliantly organised and abounding with astonishing
insights, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason offers a
fundamental challenge to our normal ways of viewing social thought.
Full Contributors: Jay M. Berstein, University of Essex, Nicholas Davey, Dundee University, Chris Fisher, University of London, Diane Hill, University of London, Michael Gardiner, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Ian Heywood, Leeds Metropolitan University, Chris Jenks, Goldsmiths' College, David Michael Levin, Northwestern University, Michael Phillinson, Goldsmiths' College, Barry Sandywell, University of York, John A. Smith, Goldsmiths' College and Lancaster University, Nigel Whiteley, Lancaster University
Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics ansd sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Among topics covered are: * the visual rhetoric of modernity * the drawings of Bonnard * recent feminist art * practices and perception in arts and ethics.
This first volume in the series "Logological Investigations",
explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection.
The author traces the differences between the traditional
discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in
everday, social and philosophical thought. The central contention
of Sandywell's argument is that in order to begin to address these
types of questions we must first explore the force field between
the discourses of reflection and reflexivity. To do so requires
radical self-investigations of the role of reflexivity in human
experience, and more especially of the role of the languages,
practises and institutions of self-reflection with the fabric of
Western culture. Consequently, these "logological investigations"
introduce a method of analysis which traces the epochal movement of
thought from a videological to a dialogical conception of the
world.
In "Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason" Barry Sandywell
outlined and defended a central place for reflexivity in the human
sciences. In this second equally outstanding and challenging volume
of Logological Investigations, he reconstructs the origins of
"European" reflection.
The author's central claim is that the world does not exist
independently of us, but that it is constituted through the terms
of our discursive categories. Rather than research being a
triumphant exploration, it is more fully understood as agonized
self-reflection on the grounds of knowledge production. Sandywell
argues that this approach has been inherent throughout Western
philosophy and in so doing, he shows that the reflexive character
of human experience in Western Culture can be traced through the
desire for intelligibility that animated Greek drama, poetry,
philosophy and science as explorations of the cosmos, body-politics
and the soul.
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make
the constitution of social theory a 'social' activity. It is
essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a
re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social
theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an
attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its
treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors' main concern
here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the
'difference' between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and
Speech. The papers in the book focus on themes that are fundamental
to the sense of inquiry and tradition which they are concerned to
display. The themes discussed include speech, Language, Identity,
Difference, Critical Tradition, Community, Metaphor, Dialectics,
Observing and Reading.
This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to
make the constitution of social theory a social activity. It is
essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a
re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social
theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an
attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its
treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors main concern
here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the
difference between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and
Speech. The papers in the book focus on themes that are fundamental
to the sense of inquiry and tradition which they are concerned to
display. The themes discussed include speech, Language, Identity,
Difference, Critical Tradition, Community, Metaphor, Dialectics,
Observing and Reading."
This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages
and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for
understanding the foundations and motivations of current
theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms
of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The
book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in
contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary
or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars
of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today.
It also offers insight into the philosophical frameworks which
underpin the field of visual culture. A central theme that runs
throughout the entries is the task of moving away from a narrow
understanding of visuality inherited from traditional philosophy
toward a richer cultural and multi-sensorial philosophy of concrete
experience. The dictionary incorporates intertextual links that
encourage readers to explore connections between major themes,
theories and key figures in the field. In addition the author's
introduction provides a comprehensive and critical introduction
which documents the significance of the visual turn in contemporary
theory and culture. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography
and further reading list. As both a substantive academic
contribution to this growing field and a useful reference tool,
this book offers a theoretical introduction to the many languages
of visual discourse. It will be essential reading for graduate
students and scholars in visual studies, the sociology of visual
culture, cultural and media studies, philosophy, art history and
theory, design, film and communication studies.
The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the
practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates
the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the
investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human
sciences and philosophical perspectives. Forty years after the
publication of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry, the chapters in
this collection range from re-appraisals of earlier essays on
topics such as 'reunions', 'rethinking art' and 'expats' to
contributions emphasising the opening of radical dialogues with
other reflexive traditions and perspectives. These include
psychoanalysis, Lacan, Hegel, Rene Girard, Daseinanalysis,
dialectical method, critical feminism, and the dialogical
tradition. In this dialogical spirit, the book contributes to the
continuing project of analytic theorizing associated with the work
of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh, and the recent turn to more
'existential' topics and politically engaged forms of reflexive
research. It will be of particular use to students working in
interpretive traditions of sociology, Critical theory, Postmodern
thought and debates associated with reflexivity and dialectics in
other disciplines and research programmes.
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of
scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture
increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and
methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international
scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims
to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the
subject. The Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of
disciplines which now engage in the study of the visual - film and
photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media,
geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology,
cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is
responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key
questions raised in visual culture around digitization,
globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role
of art. The Handbook guides readers new to the area, as well as
experienced researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that
have emerged in the study of visual culture since the start of the
new millennium, conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of
the subject.
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of
scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture
increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and
methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international
scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims
to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the
subject. The Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of
disciplines which now engage in the study of the visual - film and
photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media,
geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology,
cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is
responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key
questions raised in visual culture around digitization,
globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role
of art. The Handbook guides readers new to the area, as well as
experienced researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that
have emerged in the study of visual culture since the start of the
new millennium, conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of
the subject.
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