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The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive "problems" are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of science, this increasingly influential mode of analysis specializes in rigorous deconstructions of the research practices and textual products of the scientific enterprise. Through a series of detailed examinations of the practices and products of the sociology of scientific knowledge, Ashmore turns its own claims and findings back onto itself and opens up a whole new era of exploration beyond the common fear of reflexive self-destruction. .
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The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness (Advances in Consciousness Research)
Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.e., that they have a built-in, "implicit" awareness of their own occurrence, such that the subject of a conscious state has an immediate, non-objectual acquaintance with it. As part of this investigation, the book also explores the relationship between reflexivity and the phenomenal, or "what-it-is-like," dimension of conscious experience, defending the innovative thesis that phenomenal character is constituted by the implicit self-awareness built into every conscious state. This account stands in marked contrast to most influential extant theories of phenomenal character including qualia theories, according to which phenomenal character is a matter of having phenomenal sensations, according to which phenomenal character is constituted by representational content..
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The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable
From Moby-Dick to The Unnamable, from A Tale of a Tub to The Book of Questions, Bruce Kawin explores the nature of self-conscious fiction and compares its structure to that of human consciousness Focusing on texts that confront their own limits by trying to name the unnamable, the ineffable self, Kawin draws on methods from literary criticism to systems theory to explain a variety of first-person works that "dance around the ungraspable subject." Many first-person texts--including those of Melville, Stein, Proust, Faulkner, Lessing, and Beckett--involve a hierarchy of narrators or a system of displaced viewpoints, underneath which may lie one ideal voice: a "mind of the novel." Contemporary fiction, he shows, is not a "literature of exhaustion" but a confrontation by the author, text, and reader of the limits of awareness..
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A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
This title brings together a number of distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduciton of special reflexive pronouns (for example, myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop and the disappearance of morphological case. It provides examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart and Reuland, the author argues that the strength of certain pronominal features (such as case, person, and number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the changes in English..
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The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence (Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism)
This book is the first book length study of its subject, and also includes a reprint of a previous paper by Williams on the reflexive nature of awareness, as well as the relevant Tibetan texts from Mi pham. The book will be of interest to all students of Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka, as well as associated areas of Buddhist thought such as Yogacara and the philosophy of Dharmakirti..
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Playing the Reader: The Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction (Sexuality and Literature)
Metafictional texts frequently construct both their narrators and readers as male. The relationship between the narrator and reader within the novel is often dismissed, but in many cases it is the most intimate relationship in the novel. Drawing from such disparate frameworks as queer theory, reader theory, and game theory, this work argues that within specific metafictional novels, a strong homoerotic metanarrative exists despite the heterosexual relationships at the narrative level. The texts that this work addresses are Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars and Landscape Painted with Tea, and Carlos Fuentes's Christopher Unborn..
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Michael Hardin Playing the Reader: the Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction.(Book Review): An article from: International Fiction Review
This digital document is an article from International Fiction Review, published by International Fiction Association on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 712 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Michael Hardin Playing the Reader: the Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction.(Book Review) Author: Casie Hermansson Publication:International Fiction Review (Refereed) Date: January 1, 2003 Publisher: International Fiction Association Volume: 30 Issue: 1-2 Page: 106(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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