TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zima, Peter V
AU  - Zima,Peter V
TI  - What Is Theory? :  Cultural Theory as Discourse and Dialogue
SN  - 9789386643155
U1  - N01 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Bloomsbury
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Theoretical Discourse in the Cultural and Social Sciences: Definition   The cultural character of Theory .........19  The Linguistic and Ideological Determinants of Theories : Theory as Sociolect and Discourse ...........31  Theory, Science, institution and the Strong programme.............47  Value-Free, Falsifiable theory? The relationship between Value-freedom, intersubjectivity and refutability ...........60  Paradigms in the cultural and Social sciences..........72  2. The unity of Opposites: Prolegomena to a Dialogical Theory ............85  Between universalism and particularism : Popper and lyotard ........88  Intersubjectivity and perspective: Davidson and mannheim ..........99  Realism and constructivism : Lukac`s and glasersfeld ..............110  System and field : Luhmann and Bourdieu........122  Intersubjectivity and power structures: Habermas and foucault ........136  3. Dialogical theory: A meta-theory of Scientific Communication ..............151  Critical Theory as Dialogue: Ambivalence and Dialectics, Non-Identity and Alterity ......................156  Subjectivity, Reflection and the Construction of Objects in Discourse ........164  Interdiscursive dialogue: Theory ..........177  Interdiscursive dialogue: Practice .....191  Communication in a Fragmented society : Pluralism, indifference and Ideology .............204
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