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On the Textuality of Being

Towards an Invigorated Social Constructionism

University Of East London

Christopher Eccleston

University Of Bath

This paper addresses some of the common criticisms directed against social constructionism. Criticisms which hold constructionism to be a disguised form of behaviourism, a doctrine of subjectivist relativism and an approach of political naivete and impotence are specifically discussed. The analytic of Textuality is introduced as a way of invigorating the constructionist position and rendering such criticism ill-judged and invalid. Textuality, in affirming both the material substance of language and the textual substance of material, is presented as both a defining feature of Being, and as a way of addressing Being. Textuality thereby represents a challenge to modes of inquiry which are predicated upon a subject/object duality. Finally, these issues are contextualized within what we call a contemporary `climate of problematization'.

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 1, 85-103 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354394041004


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