Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?

Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (1):6-20 (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In 1996, the sociological journal Theory and Society devoted a special issue to “Theory and Theoreticians.”1 My contribution, titled “For Theory,” was intended as an homage to the late Alvin Gouldner, the radical social theorist, self-described “outlaw Marxist,” and founding editor of the journal, among whose many books was one called For Sociology.2 The essay was also dedicated to the memory of Bill Readings, a gifted literary theorist inspired in particular by Jean-François Lyotard, and a participant in the seminar I had led at the School of Criticism and Theory a decade earlier. Best known for his unflinching critique of what he called “the university in ruins,” Bill had lost his life at the age of thirty-four...

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The Meaning of 'Theory'.Gabriel Abend - 2008 - Sociological Theory 26 (2):173-199.
Semantic Theory of Truth.Jan Woleński - 2019 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Contemporary sociological theory.Craig J. Calhoun (ed.) - 2007 - Malden, MA: Blackwell.
DegP scope revisited.Sigrid Beck - 2012 - Natural Language Semantics 20 (3):227-272.
Compositionality and the Prospect of a Pluralistic Semantic Theory.Adam C. Podlaskowski - 2019 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (2):325-339.
Antonyms and Paradoxes.Alessandra Bertocchi - 2003 - Argumentation 17 (1):113-122.
Essays in Critical Social Theory: Toward a Marxist Critique of Liberal Ideology.Richard Lichtman - 1993 - Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers.
The semantics of metaphor and the structure of science.Daniel Rothbart - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (4):595-615.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-02-11

Downloads
8 (#1,138,312)

6 months
2 (#668,348)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

J. Martin
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations