Social Science as Civic Discourse: Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780226076249 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 246 str.

Richard Harvey Brown

Opis

Richard Harvey Brown's pioneering explorations in the philosophy of social science and the theory of rhetoric reach a culmination in "Social Science as Civic Discourse." In his earlier works, he argued for a logic of discovery and explanation in social science by showing that science and art both depend on metaphoric thinking, and he has applied that logic to society as a narrative text in which significant action by moral agents is possible. This new work is at once a philosophical critique of social theory and a social-theoretical critique of politics. Brown proposes to redirect the language and the mission of the social sciences toward a new discourse for a humane civic practice.