| |
|
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics 8 reviews
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
University of Chicago Press, 1983
as good as it gets
+ Excellent Analysis
+ Overall and insightful consideration about M. Foucault
+ Clearer than Foucault
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Writing and Difference 6 reviews
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1980
Derrida all over the place
+ As depicted
+ Difficult to read but thought provoking
+ Cryptic and Wonderful
+ Reading Derrida....
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex 9 reviews
Judith Butler
Routledge, 1993
Material Bodies
With the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler spearheaded a movement in feminist theory which has become known as 'radical constructivism'. Taking its departures from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory, and also informed by speech-act theory, Gender Trouble contends (albeit ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead, Vol. 1)3 reviews
George Herbert Mead
University Of Chicago Press, 1967
The founding stone of symbolic interactionist theory
+ Why Not Call it Philosophy?
+ A brilliant book
This books represents the foundation for a major sociological approach - symbolic interactionism. The essential premise of symbolic interactionism is that all human action is essentially symbolic and that society is to be understood, not as a closed system to be studied in abstraction, but as a ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series) 2 reviews
Sage Publications & Open University, 1997
learning about yourself and others
I read this text for an intro class to Cultural Studies, and I really enjoyed it. Hall discusses the issues of race, gender, and class in our society in many interpretations within this text. He shows how all these three are interconnected, and does so in a fascinating way. The question of how ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Reconstructing Communicating: Looking To A Future (Routledge Communication Series)
Robyn Penman
Routledge, 2000
In this innovative and potentially controversial book, Penman examines the future of communication as a discipline. She foresees a time in which communicating is conceived as a social construction process, in the anticipation that this will allow a genuine practical response to contemporary social problems. The book sets out a map toward accomplishing that future--laying the foundations for a ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art 5 reviews
Susanne K. Langer
Harvard University Press, 1957
A great book
+ A Mind-Opening Classic
+ One of the Most Important Books Today
+ Un hito en la Estética y la Filosofía del Arte
+ Still the best view of the human thought process.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge26 reviews
Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
Anchor, 1967
An illustration of commomplace social construction
+ What is reality?
+ A Classic
+ A revelation
+ The classic
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Grammar of Motives4 reviews
Kenneth Burke
University of California Press, 1969
Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad
+ Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad
+ A Grammar of Motives
+ Grammar Means Lexicon
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Culture and Value14 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein
University Of Chicago Press, 1984
Just A Tip
+ Untangling the web
+ Smarter Than Einstein
+ Delightful
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies ...7 reviews
Jürgen Habermas
The MIT Press, 1991
One of the most influential studies on the subject
+ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
+ Important thinking in political philosophy of democracy
+ Indispensable for Understanding Contemporary Culture
+ Habermas: The Public in History
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life12 reviews
Erving Goffman
Anchor, 1959
What happens when you appear in front of others
+ The presentation of self in everyday life
+ Book
+ A justifiable classic - though not without its flaws
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes11 reviews
Paul Watzlawick, Janet Helmick Beavin, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1967
A great bridge between psychology and mathematic
+ Please do not read this review..
+ Why are we here?
+ Still best of its kind?
+ One of the best book on communication
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series)8 reviews
M.M. Bakhtin
University of Texas Press, 1982
Bakhtin at his best
+ strong support for laughter promoting cognition
+ dialogic imagination review
+ Dialogic Imagination
+ Conversation vs. Generic Being
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Interrogating the Real4 reviews
Slavoj Zizek
Continuum, 2006
High theory's prankster at his best
+ Zizek Dictionary on Hegel, Lacan, and Freud
+ A critically important acquisition
+ Incredible
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration6 reviews
Anthony Giddens
University of California Press, 1986
Ontology in Sociology
+ The Greatest Social Theorist
+ A brilliant piece of grand theory
+ Obra clave de la sociología contemporánea
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration6 reviews
Anthony Giddens
University of California Press, 1986
Ontology in Sociology
+ The Greatest Social Theorist
+ A brilliant piece of grand theory
+ Obra clave de la sociología contemporánea
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Reconstructing Communicating: Looking To A Future (Routledge Communication Series)
Robyn Penman
Routledge, 2000
In this innovative and potentially controversial book, Penman examines the future of communication as a discipline. She foresees a time in which communicating is conceived as a social construction process, in the anticipation that this will allow a genuine practical response to contemporary social problems. The book sets out a map toward accomplishing that future--laying the foundations for a ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Grammar of Motives4 reviews
Kenneth Burke
University of California Press, 1969
Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad
+ Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad
+ A Grammar of Motives
+ Grammar Means Lexicon
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex9 reviews
Judith Butler
Routledge, 1993
Material Bodies
With the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler spearheaded a movement in feminist theory which has become known as 'radical constructivism'. Taking its departures from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory, and also informed by speech-act theory, Gender Trouble contends (albeit ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
