Human Sciences and Social Practices
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 313-327
ISSN: 0020-8701
It is argued that there can be no perceptible, continuous interchange between theory & practice, any more than there can be reduction of one to the other. Theory & practice are basically antithetical; one can lead to the other as a result of methodological dissociations that are just as frequently contrasting as complementary. These two autonomous poles are partly incommunicable & partly complementary; despite their conflicting relations, they are essential to each other, since theory not founded on practical experience would rapidly become ideological, & practice devoid of any theoretical basis would soon stagnate. The ways in which the human & practical sciences have contributed, over the last thirty years, to the prevailing domination supremacy of signs are delineated. Modified AA.