ABSTRACT

This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical thought.
Brilliantly organised and abounding with astonishing insights, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason offers a fundamental challenge to our normal ways of viewing social thought.

chapter 1|51 pages

Introduction

Towards a metacritique of pure reflection

part I|76 pages

Mimesis

chapter 1|41 pages

Rhetorics of Representation

chapter 2|33 pages

The Epoch of Representation

part II|120 pages

Reflection

chapter 3|35 pages

Generic Reflection

chapter 4|46 pages

Consciousness and Life-World

chapter 5|37 pages

Reflection as Speculative Thought

part III|95 pages

Reflexivity

chapter 6|24 pages

The Reflexive Self

chapter 8|27 pages

Praxical Reflexivity

part IV|82 pages

Dialogue

chapter 10|29 pages

Genealogical Self-Reflexivity

chapter 11|23 pages

Transactional Reflexivity

chapter 12|28 pages

Dialogical Reflexivity