Action and interaction
"Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand human agency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also i…
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- Full title :Action and interaction / Shaun Gallagher.
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"Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cognition, and critical social theory. He shows that in order to understand human agency and the aspects of mind that are associated with it, we need to grasp the crucial role of context or circumstance in action, and the normative constraints of social and cultural practices. He also investigates issues concerning social cognition and embodied intersubjective interaction, including direct social perception and the role of narrative and communicative practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Gallagher thereby brings together embodied and enactive approaches to action for the first time in this book and, in developing an alternative to standard conceptions of understanding others, he bridges social cognition and critical social theory, drawing out the implications for recognition, autonomy, and justice."--
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- Publication Date:©2020
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 301 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0198846347, 9780198846345
- oclc:on1121083764
- LC Classification:B105.A35
- Dewey Decimal:128/.4
Table of Contents
Part I: Action. Actions and abstractions -- Time in action -- Action, intention, and the sense of agency -- Part II: Interaction. The case against theory of mind -- Interaction -- Direct social perception-- Communicative actions and narrative practices -- Part III: A critical turn. Recognition and critical interaction theory -- Telling actions : institutions, collective agency, and critical narratives -- A practice of justice.
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