Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

Author: Maurice Roche

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1134478682

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This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter the ultimately reductionist implications of Freudian psycho-analytic theory. The book, originally published in 1973, concludes by stating the broad underlying themes of the two forms of humanistic philosophy and indicating how they relate to the problems of theory and method in sociology.


Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

Author: Maurice Roche

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1134478615

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This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter the ultimately reductionist implications of Freudian psycho-analytic theory. The book, originally published in 1973, concludes by stating the broad underlying themes of the two forms of humanistic philosophy and indicating how they relate to the problems of theory and method in sociology.


Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

Author: Maurice Natanson

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780810106161

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The idea of this anthology is to explore the relationships between phenomenology and the social sciences.


Phenomenology and Science

Phenomenology and Science

Author: Jack Reynolds

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1137516054

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This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields. Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that seem to require the resources of each, including imagination, cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception.


Articulated Experiences

Articulated Experiences

Author: Peyman Vahabzadeh

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0791487407

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By reexamining the very foundations of everyday acting and thinking and stepping into the open expanse of a possible transition to a postmodern era, this book presents a radical phenomenological approach to the study of contemporary social movements. It offers a theory of acting that refuses to surrender to norms and legislations and thus always intimates a mode of thinking that challenges various manifestations of ultimacy. Vahabzadeh invites us to radically rethink many basic principles that inform our lives, such as the democratic discourse, the concept of rights, liberal democratic regimes, time and epochs, oppression, acting, and the practice of sociology, in an effort to instate a reworked concept of experience in theories about social movements.


Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy

Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy

Author: Lawrence J. Hatab

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1786613999

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Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the “first” world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language. Common distinctions between mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where language and life are a matter of “dwelling in speech.” In this second volume, Hatab supplements and fortifies his initial analysis by offering a detailed treatment of child development and language acquisition, which exhibit a proto-phenomenological world in the making. He then takes up an in-depth study of the differences between oral and written language (particularly in the ancient Greek world) and how the history of alphabetic literacy shows why Western philosophy came to emphasize objective, representational models of cognition and language, which conceal and pass over the presentational domain of dwelling in speech. Such a study offers significant new angles on the nature of philosophy and language.