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The Political Context of Collective Action - Power, argumentation and democracy (Hardcover): Ricca Edmondson The Political Context of Collective Action - Power, argumentation and democracy (Hardcover)
Ricca Edmondson; Foreword by Hans Keman
R2,707 Discovery Miles 27 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume looks at informal political action which arises when conventional frameworks, such as those provided by welfare states, are in crisis or decline. At such times the usual expectations about political action may not apply, so what actually goes on? A specific emphasis on context - in particular the link between power and knowledge and public argumentation in a given setting - is used to trace the development of collective action. Key issues are addressed, such as how informal political collectives come to define their aims, what communication processes take place within them, how far their action responds to that of other political bodies, and how far these processes affect the results of what they do. Discussion is based around a range of empirical case studies, and we are shown that informal collective action is more widespread and significant than many realize, and that it often occurs in fields which appear to be non-political, such as in Swiss neighbourhoods.

Ageing, Insight and Wisdom - Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse (Paperback): Ricca Edmondson Ageing, Insight and Wisdom - Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse (Paperback)
Ricca Edmondson
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating 'meaning' in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of lifecourse meaning, not least those concerning ethical and temporal aspects of the ways people interpret their lifecourses, the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer. It will appeal to students of gerontology, sociological methodology, humanistic sociology, philosophy, psychology, and health promotion and medicine.

Ageing, Insight and Wisdom - Meaning and Practice Across the Lifecourse (Hardcover): Ricca Edmondson Ageing, Insight and Wisdom - Meaning and Practice Across the Lifecourse (Hardcover)
Ricca Edmondson
R2,158 Discovery Miles 21 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking a novel approach to ageing, this book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities, and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating and rich. Ricca Edmondson explores what creating meaning in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how older people are conceptualised, and for relationships between generations.

Valuing older people - A humanist approach to ageing (Paperback): Ricca Edmondson, Hans-Joachim Von Kondratowitz Valuing older people - A humanist approach to ageing (Paperback)
Ricca Edmondson, Hans-Joachim Von Kondratowitz
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, "Valuing older people" argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences of older age and presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which they can be understood. Ageing is a process of creating meaning carried out by older people, and is significant for those around them. This book, therefore, considers the impact of social norms and political and economic structures on older people's capacities to age in creative ways. What real obstacles are there to older people's construction of meaningful lives? What is being achieved when they feel they are ageing well? This collection, aimed at students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, offers a lively and constructive response to contemporary challenges involving ageing and how to understand it.

Rhetoric in Sociology (Paperback, 1st ed. 1984): Ricca Edmondson Rhetoric in Sociology (Paperback, 1st ed. 1984)
Ricca Edmondson
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Politics of Practical Reasoning - Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument (Paperback): Ricca Edmondson, Karlheinz Hulser Politics of Practical Reasoning - Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument (Paperback)
Ricca Edmondson, Karlheinz Hulser; Contributions by Keith Breen, Frank Canavan, Gerard Casey, …
R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves - in ways that are fundamentally unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument uses these ideas to interrogate ways in which reasoning is bound up with the interrelated lives that human beings lead in their everyday, public and political worlds. We build here on efforts to re-concretize practical reasoning in modern traditions linked to phenomenology and Wittgensteinian thought, also referring back to Aristotle and the Stoics in classical times. Medieval theologians and philosophers such as Aquinas confront the same issue, as do Enlightenment thinkers such as Smith and Kant. Using the history of philosophical thought as one of our major sources, the contributors sympathize with the link underscored between interpretation, tradition and reasoning by Gadamer, the stress placed on communicative and emancipatory action by Habermas, and MacIntyre's notion of praxis as highlighting deliberation within communities. All these approaches respond to practical reasoning as practical. Building on these points of view, the volume both explores what practical reasoning itself means, and applies it to particular questions: what it means to respond to arguments about meaningful work or disability, or how to debate institutional ethics or art. None of these debates is susceptible to exclusively cognitive or technical solutions; this does not mean abandoning them to unreason. Practical and political reasoning is examined here from an appropriately broad spectrum of approaches, founded in a concern for what human reasoning can justifiably be expected to involve, and what justifying it can reasonably be expected to achieve.

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