| 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 OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 300.18 |
| LCCN: 88038839 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.02" W x 8.96" (0.90 lbs) 318 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |