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The Trouble With Theory
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Author : G. N. Kitching
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2008
The Trouble With Theory written by G. N. Kitching and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
"A critique of postmodernism and poststructuralism and an examination of their impact on higher education. Argues that students influenced by these trends in philosophy produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality"--Provided by publisher.
The Trouble With Theory
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Author : Gavin Kitching
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-23
The Trouble With Theory written by Gavin Kitching and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with Philosophy categories.
Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Despite this Professor Gavin Kitching claims that, 'At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth and reality.' This is not another conservative attack on postmodernism. Rather, it is a carefully considered analysis from a dedicated university teacher who is convinced that we have gone terribly astray. He shows that postmodern theory is at best irrelevant to, and at worst undermining of, persuasive political arguments, and reveals the basic philosophical confusion at its heart which makes this so. Essential reading for any student writing a thesis in the humanities and the social sciences, and for their teachers. 'It is the strongest and best attack on the ravages of routine post-modernism that I have ever read. I applaud the way he lists the good causes that students warmly espouse, and then suggests a simpler way to support them without the self-destructive it's all just language that is implicit in their work.' - Professor Sir Bernard Crick, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London 'Gavin Kitching rattles the cages. Will the inmates hear this? They should, if only for the reason that there is virtue in learning to argue against yourself. This is a serious book.' - Professor Peter Beilharz, Sociology, La Trobe University 'Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how and why postmodernism has had such disastrous pedagogical consequences.' - Professor David G. Stern, Philosophy, University of Iowa
The Trouble With Passion
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Author : Cheryl Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-22
The Trouble With Passion written by Cheryl Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-22 with Political Science categories.
Political theorists have long argued that passion has no place in the political realm where reason reigns supreme. But, is this dichotomy between reason and passion sustainable? Does it underestimate the indispensable role of passion in a fully democratic society? Drawing upon Plato, Rousseau, and contemporary feminist theorists, Cheryl Hall argues that passion is an essential component of a just political community and that the need to educate passion together with reason is paramount. Trouble with Passion provides a compelling defense of the crucial place of passion in politics.
The Trouble With Physics
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Author : Lee Smolin
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2006
The Trouble With Physics written by Lee Smolin and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Science categories.
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String Theory And The Scientific Method
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Author : Richard Dawid
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-02
String Theory And The Scientific Method written by Richard Dawid and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Science categories.
String theory has played a highly influential role in theoretical physics for nearly three decades and has substantially altered our view of the elementary building principles of the Universe. However, the theory remains empirically unconfirmed, and is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future. So why do string theorists have such a strong belief in their theory? This book explores this question, offering a novel insight into the nature of theory assessment itself. Dawid approaches the topic from a unique position, having extensive experience in both philosophy and high-energy physics. He argues that string theory is just the most conspicuous example of a number of theories in high-energy physics where non-empirical theory assessment has an important part to play. Aimed at physicists and philosophers of science, the book does not use mathematical formalism and explains most technical terms.
The Trouble With Science
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Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Trouble With Science written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.
The Trouble With Physics
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Author : Lee Smolin
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007
The Trouble With Physics written by Lee Smolin and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
A theoretical physicist describes how the current focus on exotic particles, string theory, multiple universes, and other provocative but untested ideas dominates the field of physics and may hinder the progress of science.
Judith Butler Live Theory
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Author : Vicki Kirby
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-08-01
Judith Butler Live Theory written by Vicki Kirby and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Offering an account of the work and thought of Judith Butler, this guide is meant for those studying this pioneering thinker within the context of sociology, cultural studies, literary criticism, feminism, and philosophy. It explores her contributions to gender theory, and her impact on how the discipline of gender studies has been shaped.
The Trouble With Pleasure
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Author : Aaron Schuster
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-02-26
The Trouble With Pleasure written by Aaron Schuster and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-26 with Philosophy categories.
An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan. Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought. Though the encounter with psychoanalysis deeply marked Deleuze's work, we are yet to have a critical account of the very different postures he adopted toward psychoanalysis, and especially Lacanian theory, throughout his career. In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them. Schuster focuses on drive and desire—the strange, convoluted relationship of human beings to the forces that move them from within—“the trouble with pleasure." Along the way, Schuster offers his own engaging and surprising conceptual analyses and inventive examples. In the “Critique of Pure Complaint” he provides a philosophy of complaining, ranging from Freud's theory of neurosis to Spinoza's intellectual complaint of God and the Deleuzian great complaint. Schuster goes on to elaborate, among other things, a theory of love as “mutually compatible symptoms”; an original philosophical history of pleasure, including a hypothetical Heideggerian treatise and a Platonic theory of true pleasure; and an exploration of the 1920s “literature of the death drive,” including Thomas Mann, Italo Svevo, and Blaise Cendrars.
A Social Theory Of Freedom
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Author : Mariam Thalos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-17
A Social Theory Of Freedom written by Mariam Thalos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Philosophy categories.
In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon a certain relationship of fit between that agent’s conception of themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic—it is the logic of fit between one’s aspirations and one’s circumstances, what Thalos calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out, becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses one’s self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of one’s life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is fundamentally a political one.