Rom Harré has authored an impressive oeuvre that has inspired generations of scholars and practioners. His work has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. The book brings together a careful selection of his key writings that gives readers a systematic introduction in the conceptual universe of this towering figure.

Luk Van Langenhove is Director of a research institute of the United Nations University in Bruges. He serves as Vice-President of the International Social Sciences Council. He has worked with Rom Harré since long and is the author of 'Innovating the Social Sciences' (2007).

1. Rom Harré and the Exploration of the Human Umwelt Part 1: Epistemological and Ontological Foundations for the Social Sciences 2. Studying the Social Realm in a Scientific Way 3. The Anthropomorphic Model 4. A Metaphysics for Conservation: Speech-acts in People-space 5. The Second Cognitive Revolution Part 2: Conversations as the Primary Social Reality 6. Conversation as the Primary Social Reality 7. Using Cognitive Tools to Perform Cognitive Tasks 8. Grammar and Cognition 9. Varieties of Positioning 10. Social Sources of Mental Content and Order Part 3: Persons as Discursive Realisations 11. Persons as Discursive Realisations 12. On Being a Person: Problems of Self 13. Agency and Personality 14. Discursive Transformations of the Body 15. Individual Lives and Social Trajectories Part 4: The Discursive Dimension of Societies 16. The Discursive Dimension of Societies 17. Cultural Stereotypes and Positioning Theory 18. Crews, Clubs, Crowds and Classes: 'The Social' as a Discursive Category 19. Social Reality and the Myth of Social Structure 20. A Social Psychology of Social Change