Product Description

Written by a pioneer of non-representational theories, this astonishing book promises to question the whole direction of social sciences methodology and makes essential reading for social sciences and humanities researchers and postgraduates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37494 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 326 pages

Review

This is a richly textured book, alert to the criticisms intellectualists will bring against it and encouraging us to broaden the horizons in which we think, act and combine.

William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA and author of Capitalism and Christianity (forthcoming).

'This is a richly textured book, alert to the criticisms intellectualists will bring against it and encouraging us to broaden the horizons in which we think, act and combine.' - William E. Connolly,  Johns Hopkins University, USA

From the Back Cover

Non-Representational Theory presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of the spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation, and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. This book questions the orientation of the social sciences and humanities and makes essential reading for  researchers and postgraduates. It revolves around three key functions:

• it introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience
• it provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities
• it begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre.

Nigel Thrift brings together further writings from a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. Thrift’s noteworthy book makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area and provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic making Non-Representational Theory an incredibly useful text for students of social theory, sociology, geography, anthropology and cultural studies.

About the Author

Nigel Thrift, Professor at the University of Warwick, is also Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 35 books and over 200 journal articles. His research includes work on international finance, new forms of capitalism, cities, social and cultural theory, and the history of time

Customer Reviews

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I have read quite a lot of 'theory' and so when I saw this in a bookshop I started reading it. Two hours later I was still trying to understand what it is supposed to be about. I don't think the author really understands either.