10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTITHEORETICAL»
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antitheoretical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere
Against those who consider him an antitheoretical thinker, those who take
Wittgenstein's own injunctions against theory (and I included some of this at the
beginning of this chapter) too literally or inclusively, I argue that whatever
cohesiveness ...
Christopher C. Robinson,
2009
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Redrawing the Lines: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, ...
And from this hard antitheoretical position, surely the project of deconstruction
and analytic philosophy finding common ground should be of no interest to
literary critics per se. It should simply be considered a development in a
neighboring ...
Reed Way Dasenbrock,
1989
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Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics
Thomas Hurka, forexample, has rebuked Wittgenstein, McDowell, and Bernard
Williams,for their antitheoretical positions in regard to ethics: “an antitheoretical
position is properly open only to those who have made aserious effort to theorize
a ...
Kevin Hermberg, Paul Gyllenhammer,
2013
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The State and Justice: An Essay in Political Theory
There are a number of explanations for this antitheoretical movement. On the left
at least, there is a growing trend toward accommodation with the existing ruling
group and along with it a diminishing need to provide a theory that can be an ...
5
Drawing Morals: Essays in Ethical Theory
Theirs was the intermediate approach of partly theorizing the partly theorizable,
but it is excluded by both the scientizing and antitheoretical attitudes. Among
some ethicists the influence of these attitudes is now fading.20 In the last decade
or ...
6
Transcultural History: Theories, Methods, Sources
vision that an obsession with the past might introduce.35 This hunter-gatherer
historiography and the occasionally “antitheoretical” approach to the past36
enhanced popular interest in history. Indeed, history serves society's need to
create an ...
Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille,
2012
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Social Studies of Science
Some scientists, for example, tend to be antitheoretical, resisting, on that
methodological ground, certain discoveries. "In Baconian science," says Gillispie,
"the bird-watcher comes into his own while genius, ever theorizing in far places, ...
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Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences
It was intended to be a methodological house-cleaning, to clear away in
particular the antitheoretical attitudes of the dominant Historical School.10 For
this reason three of four sections ("Books1') of the work have "Historical" in their
titles and ...
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The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics: ...
Ronald Coase,Nobel Laureate for histheoryof the firminstitutionalism and his
works on externalities in 1991, considers American institutionalism thus: 'The
American institutionalists were not theoretical but antitheoretical (...). Without a ...
10
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
If, however, one takes Burke at his most antitheoretical as the sole representative
of political traditionalism, then Coleridge's is an impossible project. For, many of
Burke's most famous political arguments are expressed in the course of his ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTITHEORETICAL»
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Kynics and Cynics
He was antitheoretical, antidogmatic, antischolastic. With Lucian of Sarnosata the critique changes places. Lucian becomes respected and is ... «First Things, Jun 14»
Terry Teachout: A Look at the Phillips
For the most part, though, his antitheoretical approach served him well. At the Phillips, undervalued American paintings like John Marin's ... «Wall Street Journal, May 14»