Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality / Edition 74

by Richard Harvey Brown

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226076171
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	10/01/1992
Edition description:	1
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Discourse and Polity
Sociolinguistics, Language Use, and the Mobilization of Low-Income Groups
2. Personal Identity and Political Economy
Western Grammars of the Self in Historical Perspective
3. Reason as Rhetorical
On Relations between Epistemology, Discourse, and Practice
4. Theories of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Theories
Emile Durkheim and the Political Symbology of Sociological Truth
5. Rhetoric and the Science of History
The Debate between Evolutionism and Empiricism as a Conflict of Metaphors
6. Social Reality as Narrative Text
Interactions, Institutions, and Polities as Language
7. Narrative Fiction as Social Text
Literature, Literary Theory, and the Self as Social-Symbolic Act
8. Literary Form and Sociological Theory
Dialectical Irony as Emancipatory Discourse
Notes
References
Index