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A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences Univ of Chicago Edition
Contributor(s): Brown, Richard Harvey (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226076199     ISBN-13: 9780226076195
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1989
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Annotation: For too long, argues Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a 'cognitive aesthetic, ' Brown shows how both science and art-as well as the human studies that stand between them-depend on metaphoric thinking as their 'logic of discovery' and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, scope, congruence, and form.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Methodology
Dewey: 300.18
LCCN: 88038839
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.02" W x 8.96" L (0.90 lbs) 318 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a cognitive aesthetic, Brown shows how both science and art--as well as the human studies that stand between them--depend on metaphoric thinking as their logic of discovery and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form.

By recognizing this aesthetic common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge--the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane.

 
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