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Tables of Contents for The End of Knowing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
1 Introduction: when will all these endings stop?
1
21
Engaging reality
7
3
Stop making sense
10
4
Academics in an anti-institution
14
8
2 The epistemological bias
22
25
Ontology vs. epistemology
24
2
The paradigm of paradigmism
26
5
But can we really get beyond modernism (that is, knowing)?
31
4
It's all the sameness to us
35
4
The charge of relativism
39
8
3 Radically reforming modern epistemology
47
36
Discourse, text, conversation--and analysis
49
14
Moving beyond the rational (both the explanatory and the interpretive variety)
63
10
Developing development
73
3
What is the practice of method?
76
7
4 Deliberately unsystematic thoughts on a new way of running a country
83
22
A moment of truth?
85
3
A brief history of liberty
88
2
The collapse of contemporary liberalism (identity politics)
90
6
A word on Marxism--neo- and otherwise
96
3
The politics of activity
99
6
5 A community of conversations
105
60
The performance of conversation: a theoretical comment
105
9
How to make a performed conversation
114
2
Performed emotive conversations
116
10
The improvisational performance of developmental learning
126
12
The performance of philosophy
138
19
The learning-leading-development play
157
1
"Beyond the Pale"
158
5
The endings stop here
163
2
Notes
165
5
Bibliography
170
8
Index
178