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Structure, Consciousness, and History Richard Harvey Brown

Structure, Consciousness, and History By Richard Harvey Brown

Structure, Consciousness, and History by Richard Harvey Brown


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

Structure, Consciousness, and History Summary

Structure, Consciousness, and History by Richard Harvey Brown

First published in 1978, this volume is addressed to the crisis prevailing in the social and cultural sciences. The authors explore the conflict between positivism and romanticism, between hard and soft sociological research methods, and between objectivity and subjectivity - conflicts that were particularly acute in sociology at the time of publication. All of the essays adopt the approach of 'symbolic realism' or 'cognitive aesthetics' to overcome the dualism in conventional sociological theory. This strategy of symbolic realism is a philosophical amalgam forged from findings in existential phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and pragmatism. It establishes a legitimate basis for the application of aesthetic criteria to truth-seeking in the social sciences. The synthesis emergent from these essays suggests a paradigm with broad implications for all the human studies. Students of culture will find this volume a provocative point of departure for their own investigations.

Table of Contents

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 'mentalites': 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 Harre; 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.

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NLS9780521293402
9780521293402
0521293405
Structure, Consciousness, and History by Richard Harvey Brown
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1978-08-31
300
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