Interpretation and Social Knowledge
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One Knowledge
Chapter Two Reality
Chapter Three Utopia
Chapter Four Meaning
Chapter Five Explanation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
References
Index
“This pithy, deeply intellectual account—strongly based in classic sources and contemporary debates—demands the attention of the widest range of scholars in the social and historical disciplines because it offers all of us an understanding of how diverse practices contribute to our larger enterprise. Isaac Reed is a judicious and charitable reader of differing positions, and Interpretation and Social Knowledge offers an accessible mapping of the epistemological debates that have seized the attention of our most formidable scholars over the past fifty years, and more importantly, it provides a nuanced understanding of how social inquiry can and should proceed.”
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