Social Science as Civic Discourse(English, Hardcover, Brown Richard Harvey)

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Social Science as Civic Discourse(English, Hardcover, Brown Richard Harvey) is written by Brown Richard Harvey and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226076245 (ISBN 10) and 9780226076249 (ISBN 13).

Richard 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.