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Self-reflection in the arts and sciences

Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. Edited by Peter McHugh (1984)

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  1. Peter McHugh: A Memoir of the Passion of Theorizing. [REVIEW]Patrick Colfer - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):281-286.
    This paper is a personal and theoretic commemoration of Peter McHugh’s life and commitment through the prism of the writer’s discovery of, and involvement in, the effort from the late 1960s to diagnose and respond to the failure of positivism in sociology. Peter’s work (with that of Alan Blum) formed a central component of that effort. I trace the genealogy of Peter’s teaching and conversational practice, to his roots in ethnomethodology and his involvement with Harold Garfinkel. This is followed by (...)
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  • Strategically speaking: The problem of essentializing terms in feminist theory and feminist organizational talk. [REVIEW]Leslie J. Miller & Jana Metcalfe - 1998 - Human Studies 21 (3):235-257.
    This paper examines the discursive construction of collective identity in several feminist organizations, as a way of shedding new light on the debate over essentializing or totalizing terms in contemporary feminist/postmodernist theory. We argue that while this debate is about language, it has remained largely untouched by the insights of a discursive approach. The latter as we take it up here treats language as irremediably strategic or interested. In contrast, the feminist argument over essentializing terms appears to hold to a (...)
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  • Honoring (Recollecting) Our Memory of Peter McHugh as Social Theorist.Kenneth Colburn & Mary C. Moore - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):271-279.
    The recent death of Peter McHugh becomes an occasion for the remembrance and recollection of the distinctive form of reflexive or analytic social inquiry, which framed his work and that of his longtime friend and collaborator, Alan Blum. Following dual appointments at York University, Toronto, Canada in 1972, Blum and McHugh’s partnership formed the basis for a community of scholars and students throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. A brief review of McHugh and Blum’s works shows theoretical roots in social (...)
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  • Artful fiction and adequate discourse irony and social theories of science.Richard W. Hadden - 1992 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (4):421-439.
    This essay argues that recent reflexively oriented critiques of social studies of science, especially those of Steve Woolgar, present a problematic version of instrumental irony. Woolgar's own view is presented as instrumental and his antipathy to theorizing is opposed by arguing for the need to adopt a privileged position in order to carry out his recommended refusal of objectivist discourse.
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  • Hermeneutics and symbolic interactionism: The problem of solipsism. [REVIEW]Kieran Bonner - 1994 - Human Studies 17 (2):225 - 249.
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  • On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity.Christoforos Bouzanis - 2022 - History of the Human Sciences 35 (2):167-193.
    Contemporary social theory has consistently emphasized habitual action, rule-following, and role-performing as key aspects of social life, yet the challenge remains of combining these aspects with the omnipresent phenomenon of self-reflective conduct. This article attempts to tackle this challenge by proposing useful distinctions that can facilitate further interdisciplinary research on self-reflection. To this end, I argue that we need a more sophisticated set of distinctions and categories in our understanding of habitual action. The analysis casts light on the idea that (...)
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  • On generosity.Stanley Raffel - 2001 - History of the Human Sciences 14 (4):111-128.
    The article addresses the problem of how to theorize generosity. It argues that generosity is a matter of social actors orienting to standards and suggests, drawing on an analysis by Derrida, that while he too sees the necessity of standards, for him this leads to certain dilemmas as to how actors can actually accomplish generosity. How can actors display the fulsomeness generosity requires while still respecting standards or limits? An attempt is made to resolve this problem by proposing, in line (...)
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  • Peter McHugh’s Late Work.Stanley Raffel - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):289-292.
    I focus on some of Peter McHugh’s most recent papers. This is work that is not yet widely known, some of which has not even been published as yet. I try to show that while the work does not in any way contradict his life-long commitments, it still has the capacity to be not at all predictable.
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  • Peter McHugh 1929–2010: The Unique Gesture.Alan Blum - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2):231-252.
    In thinking of my relationship to Peter McHugh as an intimate collaboration, I take some reactions elicited to a most recent unpublished writing of his on intimacy as an occasion for discussing both intimacy and collaboration as a notion in-itself and as applicable to us in particular, treating that space between the general and particular of intimacy as its zone of fundamental ambiguity. I try to being to view a story of the imaginary of community, its elemental stirrings, that Peter (...)
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  • Eros and ironic intoxication: Profound longing, madness and discipleship in Plato’s Symposium and in modern life.Kieran Bonner - 2013 - History of the Human Sciences 26 (5):0952695113479358.
    The Symposium addresses the relation between desire, beauty and the good life, while indicating the fascination that strong teaching arouses in followers. For Plato, unlike for moderns, power, desire and ethics are interrelated. This article takes Socrates as a case study for the Platonic understanding of this interrelation and it will put into play the grounds involved in their modern separation. It focuses on the three speakers in the dialogue who were followers of Socrates as a way of addressing the (...)
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  • Peter McHugh 1929–2010. [REVIEW]Alan Blum - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):229-229.
    In thinking of my relationship to Peter McHugh as an intimate collaboration, I take some reactions elicited to a most recent unpublished writing of his on intimacy as an occasion for discussing both intimacy and collaboration as a notion in-itself and as applicable to us in particular, treating that space between the general and particular of intimacy as its zone of fundamental ambiguity. I try to being to view a story of the imaginary of community, its elemental stirrings, that Peter (...)
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  • The Spectacular Showing: Houdini and the Wonder of Ethnomethodology.Eric Laurier - 2004 - Human Studies 27 (4):377-399.
    This essay is about Houdini’s escapes and ethnomethodology’s studies.1 By accomplishing what appears to be impossible, Houdini leaves his audience considering not only how did he manage to do that, but also just what is it that we consider to be possible. Magicians and escapologists warn us off an interest in the mechanics of their tricks that might spoil the thrill of what they dramatically present to us: a sense of the limits to whatwe can apprehend as an audience. While (...)
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  • Insomnia and the (t)error of lost foundation in postmodernism.Peter Mchugh - 1996 - Human Studies 19 (1):17 - 42.
    Certain familiar theoretic claims of both popular and academic postmodernism are examined for their implications as to the necessary and desirable limits of social life. Taken to the end, these claims promote errancy as a means of freeing conduct from the constraints of foundation. But this kind of freedom, one which treats all limitation as pernicious, generates social action that is mechanical, scattered, and without substance—it is a pyrrhic emancipation which trades content for self-sufficiency and thus constitutes an empty life (...)
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  • Peter McHugh and Analysis: The One and the Many, the Universal and the Particular, the Whole and the Part. [REVIEW]Kieran M. Bonner - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):253-269.
    This paper takes the passing of Peter McHugh as an occasion to examine the intellectual development of his work. The paper is mainly focused on the product of his collaboration with his colleague and friend, Alan Blum. As such, it addresses the tradition of social inquiry, Analysis, which they cofounded. It traces the influence of Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology on McHugh and on the beginning of Analysis. The collaboration with Blum is examined through a variety of coauthored works but most especially (...)
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  • Identity, self-reflection and the problem of validating standards.Stanley Raffel - 1994 - History of the Human Sciences 7 (2):65-81.
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  • Reflexivity and interpretive sociology: The case of analysis and the problem of nihilism. [REVIEW]Kieran M. Bonner - 2001 - Human Studies 24 (4):267-292.
    This paper addresses the problem of reflexivity in modern social inquiry in general and in sociology in particular. This problem is inherited from Weber''s very conception of sociology, is transformed by phenomenology and ethnomethodology, deepened by the linguistic turn of hermeneutics and Wittgenstein''s later philosophy, and has been the central concern of the work of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh. The issues and spectres raised by reflexivity are methodological arbitrariness, the need to take responsibility for one''s own talk (and the (...)
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  • The enigma of the brain and its place as cause, character and pretext in the imaginary of dementia.Alan Blum - 2012 - History of the Human Sciences 25 (4):108-124.
    An analysis of the collective engagement with the disease known as Alzheimer’s and the dementia reputed of it reveals recourse to a socially standardized formula that attributes causal agency to the brain in the absence of clinching knowledge. I propose that what Baudrillard calls the model of molecular idealism stipulates such a neurological view of determinism in order to provide caregivers with reassurance in the face of the perplexing character of dementia and the depressing reactions to mortality that it brings (...)
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  • Principles, dialectic and the common world of friendship.Kieran Bonner - 2014 - History of the Human Sciences 27 (2):3-25.
    In the Crito, a dialogue that is highly influential for the traditions both of philosophy and of political thinking, Socrates resists the pleading of his friend Crito to escape the city that has condemned him. For Arendt, the dialogue instantiates the separation between humans as thinking beings and humans as acting beings, and so between political theory and philosophy. For others, the dialogue shows Socrates’ reasoning to be self-contradictory. Socrates’ introduction of the Athenian Laws as a world of greater moral (...)
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  • A dialogical exploration of the Grey zone of health and illness: Medical science, anthropology, and Plato on alcohol consumption.Kieran Bonner - 2009 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (2):81-103.
    This paper takes a phenomenological hermeneutic orientation to explicate and explore the notion of the grey zone of health and illness and seeks to develop the concept through an examination of the case of alcohol consumption. The grey zone is an interpretive area referring to the irremediable zone of ambiguity that haunts even the most apparently resolute discourse. This idea points to an ontological indeterminacy, in the face of which decisions have to be made with regard to the health of (...)
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  • Parasites, principles and the problem of attachment to place.Stanley H. Raffel - 2006 - History of the Human Sciences 19 (3):83-108.
    This article is concerned with exploring the idea of places as providing persons with nourishment. This version of person–place relations is displayed in a paper by McHugh and, in provocative fashion, in Michel Serres’s analysis of the human condition as a parasitic one. Unlike McHugh, Serres combines his analysis of parasites with a concern that principled actors may be insufficiently attached to places. His views are revealed in his interpretations of works by Molière and Plato. By reinterpreting these works, I (...)
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  • Reviews : Stanley Rosen, The Ancients and the Moderns: rethinking modernity, New Haven, Conn. London: Yale University Press, 1989, £18.00, x + 236 pp. [REVIEW]Stanley Raffel - 1991 - History of the Human Sciences 4 (1):148-151.
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  • Desire and discourse in Foucault: The sign of the fig leaf in michelangelo's David. [REVIEW]Kenneth Colburn - 1987 - Human Studies 10 (1):61-79.
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  • The promise and failure of ethnomethodology from a feminist perspective:: Comment on Rogers.Roslyn Wallach Bologh - 1992 - Gender and Society 6 (2):199-206.
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