Resistance and the Practice of Rationality.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (317 pages)
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.