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Theodore Schatzki

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#1375

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#3938

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#639

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PhD Philosophy University of Kentucky
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According to Wikipedia, Theodore Schatzki is a professor of philosophy and geography at the University of Kentucky, professor of sociology at Lancaster University. He has written extensively on practice theory. His work has developed an alternative theory of practice, influenced by Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, that people do what makes sense for them to do.

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Theodore Schatzki's Published Works

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The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001) (3449)
The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change (2002) (1887)
Social Practices: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social (1996) (1850)
Peripheral Vision (2005) (668)
On Organizations as they Happen (2006) (527)
The site of the social (2002) (423)
A Primer on Practices (2012) (373)
The Timespace of Human Activity: On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events (2010) (362)
Practices and Actions A Wittgensteinian Critique of Bourdieu and Giddens (1997) (323)
Materiality and Social Life (2010) (275)
Practice mind-ed orders (2005) (243)
A New Societist Social Ontology (2003) (211)
The Nexus of Practices : Connections, constellations, practitioners (2017) (200)
A primer on practices: Theory and Research (2012) (178)
Where the Action Is (On Large Social Phenomena Such as Sociotechnical Regimes) (2011) (90)
Practice theory as flat ontology (2016) (86)
Timespace and the Organization of Social Life (2020) (80)
Spatial Ontology and Explanation (1991) (72)
Social Change in a Material World (2019) (70)
The time of activity (2006) (50)
Overdue analysis of Bourdieu's theory of practice (1987) (46)
Sayings, texts and discursive formations (2016) (41)
Spaces of Practices and of Large Social Phenomena. (2015) (39)
Nature and Technology in History (2003) (38)
Subject, Body, Place (2001) (35)
Social dynamics I (2019) (32)
Practices, governance and sustainability (2014) (31)
Practices and Learning (2017) (31)
The Social and Political Body (1996) (28)
Wittgenstein and the social context of an individual life (2000) (28)
The Social Bearing of Nature (2000) (27)
Early Heidegger on Sociality (2007) (25)
Postmodern contentions : epochs, politics, space (1994) (24)
Social Practices: PRACTICES AND SOCIALITY (1996) (23)
The Nature of Social Reality (1988) (21)
Objectivity and Its Other (1996) (21)
On Sociocultural Evolution by Social Selection (2001) (17)
Martin Heidegger: Theorist of space (2007) (16)
OVERCOMING STRUCTURE AND AGENCY: TALCOTT PARSONS, LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AND THE THEORY OF SOCIAL ACTION (2009) (15)
Practices and People (2017) (15)
Elements of a Wittgensteinian philosophy of the human sciences (1991) (14)
Social Science in Society (2002) (13)
THE EMERGENCE OF PRACTICE (1996) (12)
Wittgenstein: Mind, Body, and Society (1993) (12)
On Practice Theory, or What's Practices got to do [got to do] with it? (2018) (12)
Living Out of the Past: Dilthey and Heidegger on Life and History (2003) (12)
Do Social Structures Govern Action (1990) (11)
Wittgenstein + Heidegger on the stream of life (1993) (11)
Crises and adjustments in ongoing life (2016) (10)
Multiplicity in social theory and practice ontology (2016) (10)
Forming Alliances (2021) (10)
Where Times Meet (2006) (8)
Human Universals and Understanding a Different Socioculture (2003) (8)
Pippin's Hegel on Action (2010) (7)
The rationalization of meaning and understanding: Davidson and Habermas (1986) (6)
Pas de deux: Practice Theory and Phenomenology (2017) (5)
Temporality and the Causal Approach to Human Activity (2012) (4)
Human Activity as Indeterminate Social Event (2013) (4)
ANCIENT AND NATURALISTIC THEMES IN NIETZSCHE’S ETHICS (1994) (4)
Book Review: On Interpretive Social Inquiry (2005) (4)
Peripheral Vision On Organizations as they Happen (2006) (3)
Book Review: Science of Science and Reflexivity (2006) (3)
Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory (2018) (2)
Spatial troubles with teaching under COVID-19 (2021) (2)
On Studying the Past Scientifically (2006) (2)
Theory and conceptual centrality in Bourdieu (2018) (2)
Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena (2011) (2)
On Plural Actions (2018) (2)
Postmodernism as Normal Science@@@Postmodernism and Social Inquiry@@@Postmodernism and the Social Sciences: A Thematic Approach@@@Postmodern Contentions: Epochs, Poetics, Space@@@Postmodernity@@@The Poverty of Postmodernism@@@After Postmodernism: Reconstructing Ideology Critique (1995) (1)
The material dimension of social life (2019) (1)
MIND/ACTION/BODY (1996) (1)
Subjects, intelligibility, and history (1985) (1)
Reviews: Two Reviews of: Society, Action and Space: An Alternative Human Geography, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World, An Introduction to Political Geography, If you Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism, A Project (1993) (1)
Questions to Theodore R. Schatzki (2015) (1)
The Temporality of Teleology: Against the Narrativity of Action (2005) (1)
Demanding Ideas : Where theories of practice might go next Table of Contents : Working Paper 4 : (2014) (1)
Book Review: Bourdieu: A Critical Reader (2002) (1)
Postscript: Individual and Totality (1996) (0)
Social Practices: DIMENSIONS OF PRACTICE THEORY (1996) (0)
Dealing with complexity (2019) (0)
THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF MIND/ACTION AND BODY (1996) (0)
Raimo Tuomela , The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View . Reviewed by (2003) (0)
Questions of Practice: Related Perspectives from Pragmatism and Practice Theory (2018) (0)
Challenging social theoretical stalwarts (2019) (0)
Digital Research and Tenure and Promotion in Colleges of Arts and Sciences (2012) (0)
Reflections on Social Theory (2016) (0)
Social Practices: Preface and Acknowledgments (1996) (0)
MIND AND ACTION FOR WITTGENSTEIN + HEIDEGGER (1993) (0)
The practice plenum (2019) (0)
Chapter 2 Practices and Learning (2019) (0)
Reply to ‘Rethinking Social Criticism: Rules, Logic and Internal Critique’ (2003) (0)
Comments on Irene McMullin's "Articulating Discourse: Heidegger's Communicative Impulse" (2006) (0)
Expanding Social Theory: Implications for Management, Strategy, and Organization Studies (2019) (0)
Hans Sluga and David G. Stern, eds. , The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein . Reviewed by (1997) (0)
Social Change in a Material World: A Précis (2019) (0)
Explaining social changes (2019) (0)
Social dynamics II (2019) (0)
Crises and adjustments in ongoing life (2016) (0)
AEROBICS AS POLITICAL MODEL AND SCHOOLING (1994) (0)
Simulation Theory and the Verstehen School: A Wittgensteinian Approach (2018) (0)
Processes, Life, and the Practice Plenum (2019) (0)
On changes, events, and processes (2019) (0)
Todd May , Our Practices, Our Selves. Or, What it Means to be Human . Reviewed by (2002) (0)
Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind (review) (2008) (0)

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