What is theory?: cultural theory as discourse and dialogue
Preface -- Introduction: Problems and Definitions -- PART I: Theoretical Discourse in the Cultural and Social Sciences: Definition -- 1. The Cultural Character of Theory -- 2. The Linguistics and Ideological Determinants of Theories: Theory as Sociolect and Discourse -- 3. Theory, Science, Institution and the "Strong Programme" -- 4. A Value-free, Falsifiable Theory? The Relationship between Value-Freedom, Intersubjectivity and Refutability -- 5. Paradigms in Cultural and Social Sciences? -- PART II: The Unity of Opposites: Prolegomena to a Dialogical Theory -- 6. Between Universalism and Particularism: Popper and Lyotard (Kuhn, Winch) -- 7. Intersubjectivity and Perspective: Davidson and Mannheim 8. Realism and Constructivism: Lukacs and Glasersfeld -- 9. System and Field: Luhmann and Bourdieu -- 10. Intersubjectivity and Power Structures: Habermas and Foucault (Althusser, Pecheux) -- PART III: Dialogical Theory: A Meta-Theory of Scientific Communication -- 11. Critical Theory as Dialogue: Ambivalence and Dialectics, Non-Identity and Alterity -- 12. Subjectivity, Reflection and the Construction of Objects in Discourse -- 13. Interdiscursive Dialogue: Theory -- 14. Interdiscursive Dialogue: Practice -- 15. Communication in a Fragmented Society: Pluralism, Indifference and Ideology -- Bibliography -- Index