Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein - Hardcover

Gunnell, John G.

 
9780226661278: Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022666127X ISBN 13: 9780226661278
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices.

John G. Gunnell argues for conventional realism as a theory of social phenomena and an approach to the study of politics. Drawing on Wittgenstein&;s critique of &;mentalism&; and traditional realism, Gunnell argues that everything we designate as &;real&; is rendered conventionally, which entails a rejection of the widely accepted distinction between what is natural and what is conventional. The terms &;reality&; and &;world&; have no meaning outside the contexts of specific claims and assumptions about what exists and how it behaves. And rather than a mysterious source and repository of prelinguistic meaning, the &;mind&; is simply our linguistic capacities. Taking readers through contemporary forms of mentalism and realism in both philosophy and American political science and theory, Gunnell also analyzes the philosophical challenges to these positions mounted by Wittgenstein and those who can be construed as his successors.
 

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John G. Gunnell is distinguished professor emeritus at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Social Inquiry after Wittgenstein and Kuhn and Social Science and Political Theory, and his work has been collected in the edited volume, John G. Gunnell: History, Discourses, and Disciplines.
 

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022666127X
ISBN 13 
9780226661278
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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