Nick Turnbull is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.

In today's society, everything is in question. The reflexive questioning of modernity has fundamentally problematized society, including philosophy, which has experienced a crisis of metaphysics. Michel Meyer's problematology answers this crisis by questioning questioning, unfolding a new way of doing philosophy, with special relevance for the study of society. In this first-ever extended treatment of Meyer's work, Nick Turnbull examines the main features of problematology, including the principle of questioning and the deduction of an original conception of difference, based on the question-answer relationship. Turnbull shows how these concepts produce new perspectives in the philosophy of the emotions, history, meaning, politics, rhetoric and science. He applies Meyer's ideas to key questions in the philosophy of social science, showing how problematology offers important insights for understanding contemporary society.
The book compares problematology with the work of well-known thinkers, including Bourdieu, Castoriadis, Collingwood, Derrida, Dewey, Gadamer, Heidegger and Lyotard. Turnbull uses problematology and rhetoric to explain how meaning is constructed through practice in the negotiation of social distance.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Problematology? A New Philosophical Approach to Social Science
1. Problematology: A New Foundation for Reason
2. The Problematological Critique of Post-foundationalism
3. Questioning in the Philosophy of Social Science
4. Questioning, Contingency and Meaning
5. Problematology and the Emotions
6. Rhetoric and Social Distance
Conclusion: Problematology and Social Inquiry
Notes
References
Index