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University of California Press

Interpretive Social Science

A Second Look
by Paul Rabinow (Editor), William M. Sullivan (Editor)
Paperback
Price: $36.95 / £31.00
Publication Date: May 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9780520058385
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.25
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About the Book

This is a new edition of the well-received Interpretive Social Science (California, 1979), in which Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan predicted the increasing use of an interpretive approach in the social sciences, one that would replace a model based on the natural sciences. In this volume, Rabinow and Sullivan provide a synthetic discussion of the new scholarship in this area and offer twelve essays, eight of them new, embodying the very best work on interpretive approaches to the study of human society.

Table of Contents

The Interpretive Turn: A Second Look
Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan

PART I.
INTERPRETATION: REASON,
TRADITION, PRACTICE
1. INTERPRETATION AND THE SCIENCES OF MAN
Charles Taylor
2. THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
Hans-Georg Gadamer
3· MODERNITY -AN INCOMPLETE PROJECT
Jliirgen Habermas
4· WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?
Michel Foucault

PART II.
INTERPRETATIONS
5· THE SEARCH FOR PARADIGMS
AS A HINDRANCE TO UNDERSTANDING
Albert 0. Hirschman
6. DEEP PlAY:
NOTES ON THE BALINESE COCKFIGHT
Clifford Geertz
7· CULTURE OF TERROR-SPACE OF DEATH:
ROGER CASEMENT'S PUTUMAYO REPORT
AND THE EXPlANATION OF TORTURE
Michael Taussig
8. MORAL/ANALYTIC DILEMMAS POSED
BY THE INTERSECTION OF FEMINISM
AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Michelle Z. Rosaldo
9· THE ART OF MANAGING:
REFLECTION-IN-ACTION WITHIN AN
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING SYSTEM
Donald A. Schon
10. FROM SOCRATES TO EXPERT SYSTEMS:
THE LIMITS OF CALCUlATIVE
RATIONALITY
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus
II. THE POLITICS OF THEORY:
IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONS IN THE
POSTMODERNISM DEBATE
Fredric Jameson
12.. THE QUEST FOR THE SELF:
INDIVIDUALISM, MORALITY, POLITICS
Robert N. Bellah

Index