Histories and Discourses : Rewriting Constructivism

Schmidt, Siegfried J./ Kock, W.K. (TRN)/ Kock, A.R. (TRN)

Imprint Academic（2007/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 150 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781845400965
• DDC分類 149

Full Description

Siegfried J. Schmidt is closely associated in Germany with the cross-disciplinary research programme of Radical Constructivism. In Histories & Discourses he carries out a change of perspective from media and communication studies to studies of culture and the philosophy of language. His 'rewriting' of constructivism shows that classical constructivism shares some fundamental assumptions with realism, and he creates a new vocabulary which allows us to understand how we construct truth, identity, ethics, etc., without using any point of reference which lies beyond our culture (our 'history and discourses').

Contents

Introduction by Mike Sandbothe; Preface; 1. The basic mechanismsupposition and presupposition; 2. Models of reality; 3. Culture programmes; 4. Interim summary (1); 5. Histories and discourses; 6. Agency; 7. Communication; 8. Process-dependent realities; 9. Beyond dualism; 10. Interim summary (2); 11. Identity; 12. Morality; 13. Truth; 14. Interim summary (3); 15. Why a theory of histories & discourses?; Glossaries; Selected references