TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE THE ADVENTURES OF PRAXIS:

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1 PREFACE VII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XIII INTRODUCTION ON SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GROUNDS: LOCATING THE QUESTION. XXV XXV SPECIFIC AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY XXIX OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS XXXI CHAPTER ONE THE ADVENTURES OF PRAXIS: A CRITICAL ENCOUNTER OF THREE TRADITIONS 1.1 PRAXIS, THEORIA AND POIESIS: THE ARISTOTELIAN TRADI- TION Praxis and Theoria: Which of Them Contributes Best to Human Well-Being? Theory and Practice, Philosophy and Politics The Primacy of Theoria? The Contemplative Ideal The Primacy of Praxis? The Activist Ideal Praxis and Poiesis: The Ambiguities of Human Action Doing and Making, Action and Production Distinctions and Blurred Boundaries Techne and Phronesis: Redrawing Borders Praxis in the Polis: The Social Conditions of Its Possibility Aristotle on Praxis: Summing Up PRAXIS AND ALIENATION: THE MARXIST TRADITION From Aristotle to Marx: Flashback Praxis in Snapshots Philosophy of Action after Hegel: Cieszkowski The Left Hegelians: Bauer, Ruge and Hess Alienation and Human Species-Being: Praxis in the Young Marx Praxis and Human Alienation Beyond Philosophy: From Criticism to Revolutionary Action

2 XVI Interpreting and Changing the World: Theses on Feuerbach Labour-Power as Social Praxis: The Mature Marx Marxist Praxis after Marx: Fast Forward Marx on Praxis: By Way of Synthesis TWO TRADITIONS OF PRAXIS: A CRITICAL ENCOUNTER Reclaiming Poiesis for Praxis: Marx s Appropriation and Critique of Aristotle Beyond Poiesis: An Aristotelian Critique of Marx THE PRACTICE TURN IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY Practice(s) in the Anthropological-Sociological Sciences Clifford Geertz: Cultural Practices and Symbolic Interpretation Erving Goffman: Infinitely Small Practices of Human Interaction Practice(s) in the Philosophical Sciences Alasdair MacIntyre: Practices, Virtue and Tradition Michel de Certeau: Towards Heterological Practice the Contemporary Turn to Practice and the Praxis Tradition What is Practice(s)? Practice/Praxis: The Sociological Concept and Its Telic Notion Theory and Practice: Beyond Subjects and Structures 95 CHAPTER TWO THEORY OF PRACTICE AND PRACTICE OF THEORY BOURDIEU'S PRAXEOLOGY AND ITS EPISTEMOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS 2.1 TOWARDS A THEORY OF PRACTICE Social Phenomenology, Social Physics and Beyond An Epistemological Break with Subjectivism Existentialist Voluntarism: Jean-Paul Sartre Rational Action Theory: Jon Elster Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: Harold Garfinkel An Epistemological Break with Objectivism Structural Anthropology: Claude Lévi-Strauss Structuralist Marxism: Louis Althusser

3 XVII Towards Social Praxeology: Beyond Subjectivism and Objectivism Gift-Exchange Beyond Mauss and Lévi-Strauss: A Paradigm of Practice The Work of Time : From Rules to Strategies Le Sens Pratique : Bourdieu s Conceptual Triad Habitus: The Feel for the Game Habitus : The Development of a Concept in Bourdieu. 126 Habitus : Towards a Definition Practice: Encounter of Two Histories Capital: The Stakes in the Game Interest, Illusio and Libido Forms of Capital: Economic, Cultural and Social Symbolic Capital, Symbolic Power and Symbolic Violence Champ: Social Space and the Fields of Power From Substance to Relations: Ernst Cassirer The Field of Power: Beyond Consensualism and Total Domination Fields of Power: Beyond the Dominant Class and the Élite Social Space and the Fields of Power Recapitulation: Practice = {(Habitus) (Capital) + Field} TOWARDS A PRACTICE OF THEORY The French Epistemological Tradition Gaston Bachelard: The Philosophy of Science The New Scientific Spirit: Towards a Non-Cartesian Epistemology Key Notions: Epistemological Obstacles, Epistemological Breaks [Ruptures] and Epistemological Couples 181 Decentering Reason, Unfixing the Subject Georges Canguilhem: The History of the Sciences Continuities: From Physical Sciences to Life Sciences. 187 History of Science as History of Concepts (Dis)continuities: Beyond Bachelard Mapping Bourdieu: The Sciences of the Social From the Philosophy of Science to the Social Sciences. 193 Bourdieu s Trajectory in Three Phases A Critique of Empiricism The Social Fact is Won: First Epistemological Break.. 196

4 XVIII The Social Fact is Constructed: Le Métier as Ars Inveniendi The Social Fact is Confirmed: Verification in Methodic Circles Meanwhile : Fundamental Break or Going Beyond? A Critique of Theoreticism Theory of Practice: Second Epistemological Break Polythesis in Practical Logic The Logic of Practice: Practice vs. Science A Critique of the Scholastic Point of View From Epistemological Vigilance to Reflexivity From Psychoanalysis of Reason to Epistemological Vigilance Reflexivity in Bourdieu s Work The Practice of Scientific Reflexivity Reflexivity: Beyond Gouldner and Giddens A Threefold Reflexive Program Critiquing the Scholastic Point of View : Towards a Rationalist Historicism The Scholastic View : From J. L. Austin to Plato Forms of Scholastic Illusion A Rationalist Historicism: Towards a Realpolitik of Reason Recapitulation: Towards a Reflexive Practice of Theory TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR THEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives Reproductive Domination: Whither Resistance and Social Change? Keeping Order : Education as Cultural Transmission of Social Inequality? Habitus as Regulated Improvisations : Inventive or Reproductive? Moves and Counter-moves Conflictive Sociality: Whither Collective Solidarity? Interest and Strategies vs. Commonly Shared Norms and Values Is Disinterested Act Possible? Bourdieu s Response Practice and Theory: Towards Appropriating Bourdieu for Theology Taking Stock of the Criticisms: Bourdieu and Beyond A Synthesis of the Praxis Traditions: Towards an Epistemological and Social Theory for Theological Discourse 248

5 XIX CHAPTER THREE PRAXIS AND THEOLOGY A CLOSER LOOK AT TWO CONTEMPORARY MODELS 3.1 PRAXIS IN THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE: ATTEMPTS AT MAPPING Praxis and the Classical Tasks of Theology: Towards Liberation Theology Sacra Pagina: Theology as Wisdom Scientia: Theology as Rational Knowledge Praxis: Theology as Critical Reflection on Praxis Theory and Praxis in Contemporary Theologies: Towards A Political Theology The Primacy of Theory The Primacy of Praxis The Primacy of Faith-Love Critical Theoretic Correlations Critical Praxis Correlations Theology and Christian Practice(s): Towards a Post- Liberal Theology Towards a Cultural-Linguistic Model of Theology Beyond Correlation: Christian Practice(s) and the Task of Theology PRAXIS AND THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE : CLODOVIS BOFF Theology and Praxis: Between Spiritualism and Activism The Priest, the Activist and the Theologian: A Conversation Liberation Theology and Its Early Critics Ideologization of the Faith: Boff s Fundamental Problematic In Search of a Framework: Opting for Althusser Sartrean Humanism and Structural Marxism: The French Debate The Process of Theoretical Practice and Its Theological Appropriation Accounting for Praxis: Theology and the Sciences of the Social Empiricism and Theologism: Epistemological Obstacles Socio-analytic Mediation: Towards a Constitutive Relationship Between Theology and Praxis Accounting for Theory: Theology in Its Internal Regime Theological Pertinency : The Theologicity of Theology 302 An Althusserian Reading of Thomas Aquinas

6 XX From First Theology to Second Theology : An Archeology of a Theology of the Political Epistemological Breaks: Differentiating Salvation, Faith and Theology The Real Object and the Object of Knowledge : An Althusserian Distinction Salvation: The Real of Theology and Its Appropriation in Praxis Faith and Theology: Non-Methodical Awareness vs. Scientific Discourse Hermeneutic Mediation: Towards Constituting Christian Positivity Althusser or Ricoeur? A Case of Semantic Mix The Hermeneutic Circle Dialectic of Theory and Praxis: Theology in Its External Regime The External Determinations of Theology Topos : The Theologian s Social Location Kairos : Theology and History Telos : Theology and the Politics of Theory Dialectic of Theory and Praxis: Smuggling in Hegel and Sartre Through the Back Door Dialectic in Its Minor and Major Keys The Theology of the Political in Dialectical Frame THEOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN PRACTICE: JOHN MILBANK Radical Orthodoxy: Locating the Terrain Radical Orthodoxy s Theological Self-Positioning The Hero in Quest of the Lost Crown The Rejection of Secular Reason: Beyond the Modern and the Postmodern For and Against Praxis: Beyond Marx Salvation as Individual Transcendence: Where is Sociality? A Problem of (Political) Praxis: Where is Transcendence? A Problem of (Social) Theory: Where is Theological Autonomy? The Problem of Foundational Praxis : Where is Narrativity? For and Against Practice: Beyond Aristotle Beyond Agonistics: From Dialectic to Rhetoric Recovering Theoria: From Metis to Mimesis

7 XXI Recovering Poiesis: From Praxis to Aesthesis Beyond Aristotle: From Phronesis to Caritas Theology as Social Science: Postmodern Critical Augustinianism Founding the Christian Metanarrative: For and Against Lindbeck Making It Strange : Narrating Augustine s Altera Civitas 370 Re-reading History: A Tale of Two Cities Re-reading Ecclesiology: Between Polis and Oikos. 372 Re-reading Ethics: Between Arete and Officium Re-reading Ontology: Between Difference and Harmony The Task of Theology: Poetic Explication of Christian Practice THEOLOGICAL METHOD: FROM PRAXIS TO PRACTICE TO POETICS CHAPTER FOUR THEOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY: EXPLORATIONS IN THEOLOGICAL METHOD 4.1 THEOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGY: BETWEEN THEORIA AND PRAXIS Theology as Sacra Doctrina Evacuating Philosophy: Only Theology Overcomes Metaphysics Knowledge as Participation: The Convertibility of Truth and Being Faith and Reason: Different Intensities in One Single Extension Some Critical Comments On the Knowledge of Truth and Participation in Being. 397 On Reason and Faith, Metaphysics and Theology Theology as Scientia Theological Method as a Theory of Theoretical Practice The Extent of Epistemological Break: Reading Aquinas 416 Epistemological Break in Boff s Methodology The Ambiguities of Sacra Doctrina : Beyond the Epistemological Project of Aquinas Continuity vs. Discontinuity: Chenu and Boff on Quasisubalternation

8 XXII Some Critical Voices The Problem of Theoreticism in Boff s Theological Method 424 Theoreticism: An Althusserian Legacy Later Boff: In Search of a New Epistemological Framework? Theology Beyond Intuitionism and Theoreticism Epistemological Couples: Beyond the Subjectivist-Objectivist Impasse Milbank s Intuitionism: In Need of the First Epistemological Break Boff s Theoreticism: Missing the Second Epistemological Break Theology as Fides in Statu Scientiae : Le Donné et le Construit Polythesis or the Fuzzy Logic of Practice: Creative Transgressions of the Frontiers of Science Back to the Rough Grounds : Dialectics of Theory and Praxis in Theology The Unity of Theory and Praxis Immersing Reason in the World of When and Where Reflexivity and the Limits of Theological Discourse All is Straw : From Sacra Doctrina to Scientia Dei Fides ex Auditu : Habitus, Theological Language and Its Limits The Modesty of Theology: Towards Reflexive Theologizing A Three-Step Reflexive Program Where Milbank and Boff Failed Reflexive Theologizing: Towards Some Structural-Political Forms THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY: BETWEEN PRAXIS AND POIESIS Between Modernity and Postmodernity: Assessing the Contemporary Context of Theological Reflection The Blumenberg-Löwith Debate: (Il)legitimacy of the Modern Age Managing the Cartesian Legacy: Theology and Modernity Reading Augustine: Civitas Dei as Social Theory? Between Praxis and Poetics: Assessing the Aesthetic Turn' in Theology

9 XXIII Theology and High Aesthetics : The Baroque and the Social Conditions of Its Possibility De Gustibus Non est Disputandum : Taste as Distinction Popular Aesthetics and Social Transformation Between Dialectics and Narrativity: Social Theory in Theology Theology and the Social Sciences: A Turbulent Relationship Socialism of the Gift, Socialism by Grace : A Non- Dialectical Social Theory? Marxism and Liberation Theology: Walking Backwards to the Future THEOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY: A SYN- THESIS CONCLUSION PRAXIS AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD: A RETROSPECT Theoria and the Turn To Praxis Praxis and the Turn to Poiesis PRAXIS AND THEOLOGICAL METHOD: PROSPECTS See [Tan-aw]: Practice(s) as Locus Theologicus La Vida Cotidiana : Towards a Theology of Everyday Life 538 Language, Practice(s) and Forms of Life: Theology as Grammar The Double-Vérité of Practice(s): Resistance and Domination Judge [Lantaw]: The Feel for the [Divine] Game From Tan-aw to Lantaw : To See with God s Eyes. 545 Epistemological Breaks: Sensus Fidelium and the Craft of Theology Act [Lakaw]: Towards a Theology of Resistance From Lantaw to Lakaw : Provoking a Redemptive Shock 552 Everyday Practices as Oblique Resistance INDEX