In Defence of Realism and Truth:Critical reflections on the anthropological followers of Heidegger

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 313-340

  Morris, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

empirical science; hermeneutics; postmodernism; realism; truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031490331     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9701700213     Document Type: Article

References (109)

1. Abel, T. (1948) ‘The Operation called Verstehen’, American Journal of Sociology 54. Reprinted in H. Feigl and M. Brodnbeck (1953) (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 677-87. New York: Appleton-Century.
2. Alexander, J. (1992) ‘General Theory in Post-positivist Mode’, in S. Seidman and D.G. Wagner (eds) Postmodernism and Social Theory, pp. 322-68. Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Archer, M. (1995) Realist Social Throry: The Morphogenetic Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Arendt, H. (1978) The Life of the Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace.
5. Aristotle (1925) The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. D. Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Assiter, A. (1996) Enlightened Women. London: Routledge.
7. Benedict, R. (1934) Patterns of Culture. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
8. Benton, T. (1993) Natural Relations. London: Verso.
9. Ben-ze'ev, A. (1995) ‘Is There a Problem of Explaining Cognitive Progress’, in R. Goodman and W.S. Fisher (eds) Rethinking Knowledge, pp. 41-56. State University of New York Press.
10. Bhaskar, R. (1978) A Realist Theory of Science. Sussex: Harvester Press.
11. Bhaskar, R. (1986) Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation. London: Verso.
12. Bhaskar, R. (1989) Reclaiming Reality. London: Verso.
13. Bleicher, J. (1982) The Hermeneutic Imagination. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
14. Bookchin, M. (1990) The Philosophy of Social Ecology. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
15. Bookchin, M. (1995) Re-enchanting Humanity. London: Cassell.
16. Bourdieu, P. (1990) The Logic of Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press.
17. Caplan, P. (1987) (ed.) The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock.
18. Carrithers, M. (1992) Why Humans Have Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Clifford, J. and G. Marcus (1986) Wirting Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
20. Cohen, P.S. (1968) Modern Social Theory. London: Heinemann.
21. Collier, A. (1994) Critical Realism. London: Verso.
22. Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff (1992) Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
23. Coward, R. and J. Ellis (1977) Language and Materialism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
24. Dallmayr, F. (1993) The Other Heidegger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
25. Danto, A.C. (1968) What Philosophy Is. New York: Harper and Row.
26. Davidson, D. (1984) Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
27. Dawe, A. (1979) ‘Theories of Social Action’, in T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet (eds) A History of Sociological Analysis, pp.362-417. London: Heinemann.
28. Derrida, J. (1976) Of Grammatology, trans. G.C. Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
29. Devitt, M. (1984) Realism and Truth. Oxford: Blackwell.
30. Elias, N. (1978) What is Sociology ? London: Hutchinson.
31. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1956) Nuer Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1962) Essays in Social Anthropology. London: Faber.
33. Fabian, J. (1994) ‘Ethnographic Objectivity Revisited’, in A. Megill (ed.) Rethinking Objectivity. Durham: Duke University Press.
34. Feigl, H. (1953) ‘The Scientific Outlook: Naturalism and Humanism’, in H. Feigl and M. Brodbeck (eds) Readings in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 8-18. New York: Appleton-Century.
35. Flax, J. (1990) Thinking Fragments. Berkeley: University of California Press.
36. Flax, J. (1995) ‘Responsibility without Grounds’, in R. Goodman and W.R. Fisher (eds) Rethinking Knowledge, pp. 147-67. Albany: State University of New York Press.
37. Flew, A. (1985) Thinking nbout Social Thinking. London: Fontana.
38. Foltz, B. (1995) Inhabiting the Earth. New Jersey: Humanities Press.
39. Foucault, M. (1980) Power/Knowledge. Brighton: Harvester Press.
40. Fromm. E. (1949) Man for Himself. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
41. Gadamer, H. (1975) Truth and Method. London: Sheed and Ward.
42. Gellner, E. (1995) Anthropology and Politics. Oxford: Blackwell.
43. Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
44. Goldman, L. (1977) Cultural Creation in Modern Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
45. Goody, J. (1995) The Expansive Moment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
46. Harré, R. (1983) Personal Being. Oxford: Blackwell.
47. Harris, M. (1980) Cultural Materialism. New York: Random House.
48. Hastrup, K. (1995) A Passage to Anthropology. London: Routledge.
49. Heidegger. M. (1962) Being and Time. Oxford: Blackwell.
50. Heidegger, M. (1994) Basic Questions of Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
51. Hollinger, R. (1994) Postmodernism and the Social Sciences. London: Sage.
52. Hollis, M. (1994) The Philosophy of Social Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
53. Husserl, E. (1970) The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
54. Jackson, M. (1989) Paths Towards a Clearing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
55. Johnson, M. (1987) The Body in the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
56. Kant, I. (1934) Critique of Pure Reason. London: Dent. (Orig. 1781.)
57. Krell, D.F. (1978) Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger. London: Routledge.
58. Kuper, A. (1973) Anthropologists and Anthropology. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
59. Kuper, A. (1994) ‘Culture, Identity and Project of Cosmopolitan Anthropology’, Man 29(3): 537-54.
60. Layder, D. (1994) Understanding Social Theory. London: Sage.
61. Makkreel, R.A. (1975) Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
62. Malinowski, B. (1922) Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge.
63. Marx, K. (1975) Early Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
64. Marx, K. and F. Engels (1968) Selected Works. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
65. Marx, K. and F. Engels (1975) The Holy Family. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
66. Medawar, P. (1982) Pluto's Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
67. Megill, A. (1994) Rethinking Objectivity. Durham: Duke University Press.
68. Mill, J.S. (1843) A System of Logic. London: J.W. Parker.
69. Miller, D. (1983) A Pocket Popper. London: Fontana.
70. Moore H.L. (1994) ‘Understanding Sex and Gender’, in T. Ingold (ed.) Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, pp. 813-30. London: Routledge.
71. Morris, B. (1985) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Human Subject’, Man 20: 722-42.
72. Morris, B. (1986) ‘Is Anthropology Simply a Romantic Rebellion against the Enlightenment?’, Eastern Anthropology 39(4): 359-64.
73. Morris, B. (1987) Anthropological Studies of Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
74. Morris, B. (1991) Western Conceptions of the Individual. Oxford: Berg.
75. Morris, B. (1994) Anthropology of the Self. London: Pluto.
76. Murdoch, I. (1992) Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
77. Nencel, L. and R. Pels (1991) Constructing Knowledge. London: Sage.
78. O'Meara, J.T. (1989) ‘Anthropology as Empirical Science’, American Anthropologist 91: 354-69.
79. Outhwaite, W. (1975) Understanding Social Life. London: Allen and Unwin.
80. Outhwaite, W. (1987) New Philosophies of Social Science. London: Macmillan.
81. Outhwaite, W. (1994) Habermas - A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
82. Passmore J. (1985) Recent Philosophers. London: Duckworth.
83. Pennick, N. (1996) Celtic Sacred Landscapes. London: Thames and Hudson.
84. Pocock, D. (1961) Social Anthropology. London: Steed and Ward.
85. Popper, K. (1992a) In Search of a Better World. London: Routledge.
86. Popper, K. (1992b) Unended Quest. London: Routledge.
87. Rabinow, P. (1984) The Foucault Reader. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
88. Rabinow, P. and W.M. Sullivan, eds (1987) Interactive Social Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.
89. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. (1922) The Andaman Islanders. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
90. Reyna, S.P. (1994) ‘Literary Anthropology and the Case Against Science’, Man 29(3): 555-81.
91. Ricoeur, P. (1976) Interpretation Theory. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press.
92. Ricoeur, P. (1981) Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
93. Rorty, R. (1979) Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
94. Rorty, R. (1989) Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
95. Shweder, R.A. (1984) ‘Anthropology's Romantic Rebellion against the Enlightenment’, in R.A. Shweder and R.A. Levine (eds) Culture Theory, pp. 27-66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
96. Skinner, B.F. (1953) Science and Human Behaviour. New York: Macmillan.
97. Sorell, T. (1991) Scientism. London: Routledge.
98. Sperber, D. (1985) On Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
99. Taylor, C. (1985) Philosophy and the Human Sciences 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
100. Toulmin, S. (1995) ‘Foreword’, in R. Goodman and W.S. Fisher (eds) Rethinking Knowledge. Albany: State University of New York Press.
101. Trigg, R. (1980) Realily at Risk. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester.
102. Tyler, S. (1973) India: An Anthropological Perspective. California: Goodyear Publications.
103. Tyler, S. (1986) ‘Post-modern ethnography’, in J. Clifford and G. Marcus (eds) Writing Culture, pp. 122-40. Berkeley: University of California Press.
104. Tyler, S. (1991) ‘A Post-modern in-stance’, in L. Nencel and P. Pels (eds) Constructing Knowledge, pp. 78-94. London: Sage.
105. Vincent, J. (1990) Anthropology and Politics. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
106. Warnke, G. (1987) Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason. Cambridge: Polity Press.
107. in M. Brodbeck (ed.) Watkins, J.W.N. (1968) ‘Methodological Individualism and Social Tendencies’, in M. Brodbeck (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan.
108. Weber, M. (1947) The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, trans. by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons. New York: Free Press.
109. White, L.A. (1949) The Science of Culture. New York: Grove Press.