Praxis. An Exercise in Engaging Cultural Studies
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- ISBN 9783631873342
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The book is designed as a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which refers to a specific research approach requiring cooperation and the inclusion of individuals and communities in the research process, using a rich repertoire of humanistic traditions as a tool of social criticism. The key is to treat cultural studies as a workshop in which the researcher changes from a distant observer into a practical person – a public intellectual and craftsman at the same time. The turn from “engaged” to “engaging” research methodologies described in the book is strongly rooted in the tradition of the philosophy of praxis and the theory of social practices, from Aristotle, through Marxist theories, to contemporary participatory action research. Today, however, the practical approach in the humanities takes on particular importance in the context of the so-called ontological turn. The book tries to answer the question whether cultural studies based on the category of practice has a chance to be a new form of critical thinking under the conditions of post-anthropocentric humanities.
Agata Skórzyńska is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU). She is the author of the book Theatre as a Source of Postmodern Social Spectacles (2007). She is Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies at AMU and a member of the Committee of Cultural Studies at the Polish Academy of Science. Currently she is leading a research project titled "Social circuits of knowledge" funded by the National Science Center.
