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A Poetic for Sociology
Richard Harvey Brown
其他書名
Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences
出版University of Chicago Press, 1989-03-07
主題Education / GeneralPhilosophy / AestheticsSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / MethodologySocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN02260761999780226076195
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RCXxEumXFhUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and art—as well as the human studies that stand between them—depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form.

By recognizing this "aesthetic" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge—the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane.