The Flight from Ambiguity(English, Paperback, Levine Donald N.)

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The Flight from Ambiguity(English, Paperback, Levine Donald N.) is written by Levine Donald N. and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226475565 (ISBN 10) and 9780226475561 (ISBN 13).

The essays turn about a single theme, the loss of the capacity to deal constructively with ambiguity in the modern era. Levine offers a head-on critique of the modern compulsion to flee ambiguity. He centers his analysis on the question of what responses social scientists should adopt in the face of the inexorably ambiguous character of all natural languages. In the course of his argument, Levine presents a fresh reading of works by the classic figures of modern European and American social theory-Durkheim, Freud, Simmel and Weber, and Park, Parsons, and Merton.