Richard Harvey Brown

Structure, Consciousness and History

Herausgeber: Brown, Robert Hanbury; Lyman, S. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays adopt the approach of 'symbolic realism' or 'cognitive aesthetics' to overcome the crisis of dualism in conventional sociological theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521293402
• ISBN-10: 0521293405
• Artikelnr.: 29424602

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction: symbolic realism and cognitive aesthetics: an
invitation Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman; Part I. Structure,
Consciousness and History: 1. Symbolic realism and sociological
thought:beyond the positivist romantic debate Richard Harvey Brown; 2.
History and hermeneutics: Wilhelm Dilthey and the dialectics of
interpretative method Richard Harvey Brown; 3. The acceptance, rejection,
and reconstruction of histories: on some controversies in the study of
social and cultural change Stanford M. Lyman; 4. The histories of
'mentalités': recent writings on revolution, criminality and death in
France Robert Darnton; Part II. Structure, Self, and Evil: 5. Architectonic
man: on the structuring of lived experience Rom Harré; 6. Social theory as
confession: Parsonian sociology and the symbolism of evil Paul G. Creelan;
7. Dignity versus survival? Reflections on the moral philosophy of social
order Manfred Stanley; Part III. Praxis and Utopia: 8. Dramaturgical and
political enactments: toward an artistic foundation for political space
Tracy B. Strong; Toward a semiotic of utopia: Thomas More's Utopia Louis
Marin.