
The Trouble with Theory
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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