Description
Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of parallels and points of contact between these two traditions. The contributors all are steeped in one or both of these streams and well-known for their work on practice. The collected essays explore three important themes: what practice and practices are, normativity, and transformation. The volume deepens understanding of these three practice themes while strengthening appreciation of the parallels between and complementariness of pragmatism and practice theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Questions of Practice: Related Perspectives from Pragmatism and Practice Theory
Anders Buch and Theodore R. Schatzki
Part I: Practices and the Practical Dimension
1. Bodily Postures and the Normativity of Niche Construction Practices
Joseph Rouse
2. Action, Practice, and Theory: Toward a Pragmatist Practice Philosophy
Emil Višňovský
3. On Plural Actions
Theodore R. Schatzki
4 Narrative Understanding and Originary Temporality
William Blattner
Part II: Normativity
5. Practices, Technae, and Two-Dimensional Norms
Mark Okrent
6. Professionalism, Practice, and Knowledge Policy
Anders Buch and Hans Siggaard Jensen
7. Pragmatist Aesthetics and the Experience of Technology
David L. Hildebrand
8. Somaesthetic Practice and the Question of Norms
Richard Shusterman
Part III: Transformation
9. From Crisis to Experiment. Bourdieu & Dewey on Research Practice & Cooperation
Tanja Bogusz
10. Practices We Know By--Knowledge as Transformative
Antje Gimmler
11. Practices of Self-Negation
Mustafa Emirbayer
12. Making Much of Doing with Hearts, Heads & Hands
Charlene Seigfried
13. Reflections on the use of positioning theory in the sociology of intellectuals
Patrick Baert
