The Reading of Theoretical Texts

by Peter Ekegren

Overview

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415757768
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/08/2014
Series:	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

1. General Introduction 2. The Social Sciences and Criticism 3. Language and Criticism 4. The Understandings of Quentin Skinner 5. The Teleological Mode of Reading 6. Interpretation and the Harmonious Whole 7. Holes in Wholes in Wholes