The trouble with theory : the educational costs of postmodernism /: the educational costs of postmodernism. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gavin Kitching.
• Authors: Kitching, G. N
• Contents: Preface; ; Acknowledgements; ; Introduction; ; Addendum: Research methodology and book structure; ; PART I TIED IN KNOTS: THEORY AND CONFUSION; ; 1 Doing theory', or creating a landscape; ; 2 Relationships', or arranging objects in the landscape; ; 3 Zapping landscapes and setting objects alight: Power; ; 4 The social construction of reality: Equivocations; ; 5 Language and discourse; ; PART II LOOSENING THE COILS: WITTGENSTEIN; ; 6 An outsider's view of the world: The contemplative stance of the theorist; ; 7 Theory and Tractatus epistemology; ; Addendum: The Philosophical Investigations, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Augustinian picture' of language: An aside on a technical but relevant issue in Wittgensteinian exegesis; ; 8 The last and most tangled knot: The linguistic construction of subjectivity; ; Addendum: Wittgenstein's conception of language as a city, or theory as
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.01; Education, Higher -- Philosophy; Education -- Political aspects; Postmodernism and education; Poststructuralism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000247213
• Related ISBNs: 9781000250992; 9781000254808; 9781003118237
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