John Phillips - Contested Knowledge - Hardback Book

Name: John Phillips - Contested Knowledge - Hardback Book
Brand: John Phillips

John Phillips

Contested KnowledgeA Guide to Critical Theory\nAuthor(s): John Phillips\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Zed Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781856495578, 978-1856495578\nSynopsis\nThis is the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory currently available. Providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, role and importance of theory across the humanities and social sciences, the book not only maps a notoriously complex area, but it also enables the reader to take the arguments and apply them in practice. Starting with an explanation of how theory relies on implicit assumptions that inform interpretations, the book moves on to depict the long-term philosophical problems that have fed into much twentieth century thinking and also more recent debates. The philosophical grounds of contemporary thought are traced from Plato through Descartes to the work of Heidegger and Freud and on to recent developments in structuralism an.