The Flight from Ambiguity
Essays in Social and Cultural Theory
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:1st Jun '88
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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.
ISBN: 9780226475561
Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 1mm
Weight: 369g
260 pages