Intersubjectivity and Contemporary Social Theory Book

	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Making Sense of Social Subjects: Reflexivity, Perception, Praxis and the Everyday	1
	Making Sense	1
	Reflexivity	2
	Intersubjectivity	4
	Power, Objectification, Types and Stereotypes	7
	Rationality and Ideology Critique	10
	The Gap Between Perception and Practice in Merleau-Ponty	12
2	The Limits of the Phenomenological Perspective	15
Pt. 1	Communicative Interaction in Social Theory	17
	G. H. Mead: Formation of the Subject in Consciousness	17
	Schutz: The Natural Attitude and the Taken for Granted	19
	The Everyday World as Already-Constructed Types of Practical Activity	20
	The 'We-Relationship': Constructs and Intersubjectivity	21
	Critical Theory and the Circle of Self-Consciousness	23
	Giddens's Criticisms of Schutz	29
Pt. 2	Linguistic Conventionalism and the Frege-Dummett Critique	31
	Richard Rorty and Self-Affirming Edification	31
	Rorty and Gadamer	31
	Rorty, Davidson and Reference	33
	Dummett: Semantic Closure Versus Semantic Context	35
3	Intersubjectivity and Rationality	39
	The Taken For Granted: Aspect or Domain of Meaning?	39
	Reason, Rationalisation and Common Sense	41
	Habermas, the Life-World and Resisting Rationalisation	44
	Gramsci, Common Sense and the Articulation of Formal Discourses	48
	Quentin Skinner: Text as Action and Contestation	50
	Gadamer, Dialogical Understanding and the Problem of General Meanings	54
	Some Consequences of Dialogical Method	57
	Rationality, Modernity and Situatedness	59
4	From Structuralism to Phenomenology: Connotation, Denotation and Meaning Context	63
	Connotation and the Coherence of Discourse: The Legacy of Althusser	63
	Althusser, Spinoza and the Discursivity of the Real	66
	Ideology as Lived Experience	68
	Semiotic Theories of Meaning and the Context Issue	69
	From Connotation to Sedimented Meaning: Laclau, Jameson, Schutz	71
	Ricoeur and Semiotics: From Metaphor to Metaphysics	73
	Ricoeur and Substitution: Jakobson, Laclau, Mouffe	75
	The Theory of Descriptions	78
	Denotation, Connotation and the Place of Contradiction	79
5	Sense and Reference: The Everyday as Basis and Critique of Classification Systems	83
	Husserl and the Life-World	83
	Habermas	86
	Everyday Objects: The Irredeemably Contextual Nature of Reference	87
	A Critique of Discursive Classification in Laclau and Mouffe	89
	Language or Communicative Practice?: A Constitutive Ambiguity in Cultural Commentary	91
	The Everyday as Interruption and Transfiguration	92
	Representation and the Emergence of Reference	93
6	Discursive Realism: Self-Referentiality and the 'Depth' of Meaning	97
Pt. 1	The Problem of Embodiment	98
	Mind-Body Dualism: A Contested Characteristic of Contemporary Thought	98
	The Constitutive Ambiguity of Embodiment	100
	Dualism at Work: Physicalist and Cognitivist Contradictions in Foucault and Goffman	102
Pt. 2	Alternatives to Conventionalist Accounts of the Discursive	107
	Dummett's Reading of Frege's Theory of Meaning	107
	Phenomenological Sociology as an Alternative to Conventionalism	111
	Naming and Fetishism: Dummett, Ricoeur and Derrida	114
7	Space, Time and the Everyday: Jameson and Osborne	119
	Fredric Jameson: The Semiotics of 'Late Capitalism'	120
	Semiotics and the Problem of Closure	123
	Sense and Referent	126
	The Historical Referent: From Jameson to Gramsci	128
	Articulating the Past	129
	The Historical Past as Sediment	131
	Althusser and the Conjunctural Formulation of Historical Moments	132
	Capitalism, Modernity and the Significance of Remembering	134
	The Politics of Time	138
8	Afterword	141
	Bibliography	145
	Index	155