The flight from ambiguity : essays in social and cultural theory

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The flight from ambiguity : essays in social and cultural theory

Donald N. Levine

University of Chicago Press, 1988

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"Paperback edition 1988."--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 225-240

Includes index

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Description

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.

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  • NCID
    BA10797627
  • ISBN
    • 0226475565
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 248 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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