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Resistance and the Practice of Rationality.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443869669
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Resistance and the Practice of RationalityDDC classification:
  • 128.33
LOC classification:
  • BC177 -- .B384 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF BOXES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- PART I: RESISTANCE IN THE NATURAL-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- PART II: RESISTANCE IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- PART III: RESISTANCE IN THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- PART IV: RESISTANCE IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS AND LAW -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Resistance used to mean irrational and reactionary behaviour, assuming that rationality resides on the side of progress and its parties. The end of the Cold War allows us to drop ideological and prejudicial analysis. Indeed, we recognise that resistance is a historical constant, and its relation to rationality or irrationality is not predetermined. This volume asks: to what extent are social scientific conceptions of ‘resistances’ sui generis, or borrowed from natural sciences by metaphor an.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF BOXES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- PART I: RESISTANCE IN THE NATURAL-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- PART II: RESISTANCE IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- PART III: RESISTANCE IN THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- PART IV: RESISTANCE IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS AND LAW -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Resistance used to mean irrational and reactionary behaviour, assuming that rationality resides on the side of progress and its parties. The end of the Cold War allows us to drop ideological and prejudicial analysis. Indeed, we recognise that resistance is a historical constant, and its relation to rationality or irrationality is not predetermined. This volume asks: to what extent are social scientific conceptions of ‘resistances’ sui generis, or borrowed from natural sciences by metaphor an.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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