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Politics of Selfhood
Bodies and Identities in Global CapitalismRichard Harvey Brown was professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.
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Structure, Consciousness, and History
These essays adopt the approach of 'symbolic realism' or 'cognitive aesthetics' to overcome the crisis of dualism in conventional sociological theory.
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Toward a Democratic Science
Scientific Narration and Civic Communication"Brown is a gifted theorist and critic. He has a keen sense of scientific discourse as rhetoric and deftly uses dialectical method, represented especially by the joining of science and politics as narration."—Herbert W. Simons, School of Communications and Theater, Temple University "An important book that speaks with great force to key issues in current social theory and sociological thought."—Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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A Poetic for Sociology
Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human SciencesFor too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and art—as well as the human studies that stand between them—depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form. By recognizing this "aesthetic" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge—the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane.
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Social Science as Civic Discourse
Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social TheoryRichard 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.
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Society as Text
Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and RealityBrown 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.
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Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements of these changes from more global influences. His answer focuses on the ways in which economic imperatives give shape to the shifting experience of being American.Drawing on a wide knowledge of American history and literature, the latest social science, and contemporary social issues, Brown investigates continuity and change in American race relations, politics, religion, conception of selfhood, families, and the arts. He paints a vivid picture of contemporary America, showing how postmodernism is perceived and felt by individuals and focusing attention on the strengths and limitations of American democracy.
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Modernization in East Asia
Political, Economic, and Social PerspectivesIn this volume East Asia is used as a unit of political and economic analysis to reveal an approach to modernization that is distinct from the Western model. Modernization in East Asia contains useful theoretical frameworks and empirical data for scholars, practitioners, and students.
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Rückblick auf das Ende der Welt
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes stammen von einem Symposion, das in New York im Herbst 1986 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Freien Universität Berlin, der Columbia University New York (Sylvère Lotringer), dem Goethe-Institut, New York und der Stiftung zur Förderung der Philosophie, New York, stattfand.Der Band enthält folgende Beiträge:Edgar Morin: Annäherungen an das NichtsChristoph Wulf: Die Zeitlichkeit von Weltbildern und SelbstbildernRichard Harvey Brown: Telos und Transformation gesellschaftlicher Bedeutungssysteme ¿ Einem neuen Weltbild entgegenGunter Gebauer: Der Ort von Anfang und Ende. Über Höhlen und ihre SymbolsystemeHans-Dieter Bahr: Eschatastrophe oder: Die letzte WendungJean Baudrillard: Die magersüchtigen RuinenPeter Sloterdijk: Das Andere am Anderen. Zur philosophischen Situation der AlternativbewegungenDieter Lenzen: Verschwinden der Erwachsenen: Kindheit als ErlösungDietmar Kamper: Zwischen Simulation und Negentropie. Das Schicksal des Individuums im Rückblick auf das Ende der WeltPaul Virilio: Das letzte Vehikel
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Politics of Selfhood: Bodies and Identities in Global Capitalism
€ 74,95