Social Science As CIVIC Discourse Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social Theory

Brown, Richard Harvey

ISBN 10: 0226076245 / ISBN 13: 9780226076249

Published by U. Of Chicago Press, 1989

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Very good, DJ, 227pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Social Science As CIVIC Discourse Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social Theory
• Publisher: U. Of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226076245
• ISBN 13: 9780226076249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Used: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

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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.

About the Author

Richard Harvey Brown is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.