SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE by Richard Harvey Brown ( 9780226076249 )

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SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE
ESSAYS ON THE INVENTION, LEGITIMATION AND USES OF SOCIAL THEORY

By:

Richard Harvey Brown

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 1989

Pages:

246

Synopsis:

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.

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xviii, 228 p.

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University of Chicago Press

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