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The Flight from Ambiguity

Essays in Social and Cultural Theory

Donald N Levine author

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