A01=Richard Harvey Brown
Author_Richard Harvey Brown
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226076249
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 1989
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
