Gavin KitchingThe Trouble with Theory
The educational costs of postmodernism
Gavin Kitching is Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and has research interests in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, globalisation, and agricultural development in the Third World.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Addendum: Research methodology and book structure
PART I TIED IN KNOTS: THEORY AND CONFUSION
1 Doing theory', or creating a landscape
2 Relationships', or arranging objects in the landscape
3 Zapping landscapes and setting objects alight: Power
4 The social construction of reality: Equivocations
5 Language and discourse
PART II LOOSENING THE COILS: WITTGENSTEIN
6 An outsider's view of the world: The contemplative stance of the theorist
7 Theory and Tractatus epistemology
Addendum: The Philosophical Investigations, the Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus and the Augustinian picture' of language: An aside on
a technical but relevant issue in Wittgensteinian exegesis
8 The last and most tangled knot: The linguistic construction of
subjectivity
Addendum: Wittgenstein's conception of language as a city, or theory as
