The sensory basis of historical analysis: A reply to post-structuralism

Rethinking History

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 329-332

  Kaufmann, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concepts; Empiricism; Historical theory; Historiography; Positivism; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009762383     PISSN: 13642529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642529908596356     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Giddens, Anthony (1987) 'Structuralism, post-structuralism and the production of culture', in A. Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner, Social Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity Press, p. 196.
2. The ability of powerful actors to shape the social world has been a staple of Michel Foucault's writing. For the distinction between performative and constative, see Austin, J.L. 'Performative utterances,' in J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock (1979) Philosophical Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 233-52.
3. See Durant, Will [1926] (1953) The Story of Philosophy, New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 268-70.
4. The classic exposition of Stinchcombe's argument appears in Stinchcombe, Arthur L. (1968) Constructing Social Theories, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pp. 43-45.