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.

Reflexivity And The Crisis of Western Reason: Logological Investigations: Volume One (Logological Investigations; 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sandywell, Barry

Social Sciences

Routledge

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Beginnings of European Theorizing: Reflexivity in the Archaic Age: Logological Investigations: Volume Two (Logical Investigations, Vol 2)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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.

Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse c. 600-450 B.C. (Logological Investigations, Vol. 3)

Philosophy

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.

Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason

Sociology

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.

Problems of reflexivity and dialectics in sociological inquiry: Language theorizing difference (Routledge direct editions)

Routledge & K.Paul

Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse C. 600-450 B.C.: Logological Investigations: Volume Three

Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute Lectures

Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason: Logological Investigations: Volume One

Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

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.

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry (RLE Social Theory): Language Theorizing Difference (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Silverman, David

ROCHE, MAURICE

Phillipson, Michael

Filmer, Paul

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