Autobiography Of A Theory

Author : Yvonne M Agazarian
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846421659
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Theory written by Yvonne M Agazarian and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems-centred practice and its theory are one of the most important developments in group psychology in the last forty years. In this book Yvonne Agazarian traces the evolution of her ideas and their application to create a meta-theory, the theory of living human systems. Autobiography of a Theory follows Agazarian as she thinks her way through different stages, creating a theoretical background for SAVI (System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction), which she developed with Anita Simon, developing a theory of the Invisible Group for the book she wrote with Richard Peters and expanding on existing group dynamics theories. With members of the General Systems Committee of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, she joined the challenge of formulating a systems theory for group and arrived at her theory of living human systems from which she derived the methods and techniques of systems-centred therapy for groups and individuals. This fascinating account of her professional life not only documents major developments in group analysis, but also shows how a theory is formulated from intellectual and personal contexts, and how a theory-based practice is generated.

Author : Jack Rayman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885333612
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life with a Theory written by Jack Rayman and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, John L. Holland introduced a theory of vocational choices, which is still used today. It embraces a personality typology involving six models (widely known as the Holland Code, or RIASEC). Here in this new publication, readers will finally see Holland's previously unpublished autobiography and appreciate this antidote for imperfect secondary accounts of the theory.This long-awaited book provides counseling practitioners, counselor educators, researchers, vocational psychologists and students with: 1) a clear and concise understanding of the Holland Theory and its implications for practice, 2) a snapshot of John Holland's life-long effort to establish the efficacy of the theory, and 3) an appreciation for the life of an accomplished theoretician and researcher and his impact on the counseling profession.

Author : David Huddart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134261489
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography written by David Huddart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn. Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial theory and its relation to subjectivity. Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories. Offering a fresh perspective on familiar critical figures like Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by putting them in the context of readings of the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alain Badiou, this book relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that, together with postcolonial theory, rethink and extend norms of experience, investigation, and knowledge.

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299158446
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Autobiography, Theory written by Sidonie Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.

Author : James Gleick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379574
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Information written by James Gleick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Author : Wilhelm Hemecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110516675
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biography in Theory written by Wilhelm Hemecker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context. Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in biographical theory. This revised and updated English language edition also includes new translations of texts by J. G. Herder and Stefan Zweig, as well as an introductory discussion on the possibility of a ‘theory of biography’. Note: Due to copyright reasons, the chapter "Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Extract] (1971)" (pp. 175–177) by Roland Barthes could not be included in the ebook.

Author : Shari Benstock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807842188
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Self written by Shari Benstock and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, t

Author : Tess Coslett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134573626
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism & Autobiography written by Tess Coslett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.

Author : Lauren Fournier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362589
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism written by Lauren Fournier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.

Author : Liz Stanley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046490
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Auto/biographical I written by Liz Stanley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.