Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of parallels and points of contact between these two traditions. The contributors all are steeped in one or both of these streams and well-known for their work on practice. The collected essays explore three important themes: what practice and practices are, normativity, and transformation. The volume deepens understanding of these three practice themes while strengthening appreciation of the parallels between and complementariness of pragmatism and practice theory. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Questions of Practice: Related Perspectives From Pragmatism and Practice Theory • Anders Buch and Theodore R. Schatzki Part I: Practices and the Practical Dimension 1 Bodily Postures and the Normativity of Niche Constructive Practices • Joseph Rouse 2 Action, Practice, and Theory: Toward a Pragmatist Practice Philosophy • Emil Višňovský 3 On Plural Actions • Theodore R. Schatzki 4 Narrative Understanding and Originary Temporality • William Blattner Part II: Normativity 5 Practices, Technai, and Two-Dimensional Norms • Mark Okrent 6 Professionalism, Practice, and Knowledge Policy • Anders Buch and Hans Siggaard Jensen 7 Pragmatist Aesthetics and the Experience of Technology • David L. Hildebrand 8 Somaesthetic Practice and the Question of Norms • Richard Shusterman Part III: Transformation 9 From Crisis to Experiment: Bourdieu and Dewey on Research Practice and Cooperation • Tanja Bogusz 10 Practices We Know by: Knowledge as Transformative • Antje Gimmler 11 Practices of Self-Negation • Mustafa Emirbayer 12 Making Much of Doing With Hearts, Heads, and Hands • Charlene Haddock Seigfried 13 Reflections on the Use of Positioning Theory in the Sociology of Intellectuals • Patrick Baert Contributors Index This volume brings together prominent philosophers and sociologists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of convergences and parallels between pragmatism and practice theory.