Society As Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality

Brown, Richard Harvey

ISBN 10: 0226076164 / ISBN 13: 9780226076164

Published by Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987

About this Item

Bottom of spine and front cover near spine bumped. ; Jacket now in a clear protector; 252 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Society As Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality
• Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226076164
• ISBN 13: 9780226076164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text.

About the Author

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