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Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality

Clem Robyns, Richard Harvey Brown

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Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text.

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Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text.

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Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text.

Key concepts: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Literature, Sociology, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Art, Linguistics

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