The Reading of Theoretical Texts

A Critique of Criticism in the Social Sciences
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-20772-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekegren, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. General Introduction 2. The Social Sciences and Criticism 3. Language and Criticism 4. The Understandings of Quentin Skinner 5. The Teleological Mode of Reading 6. Interpretation and the Harmonious Whole 7. Holes in Wholes in Wholes

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Ekegren