Self-reflection in the arts and sciences

by Alan Blum

Blum, Alan / McHugh, Peter. Self Reflection in the Arts and Sciences. Atlantic Highlands, Humanities Press Inc., 1984. 23.6cm x 15.8cm. 159 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of sociologist Kurt H. Wolff. An attempt to integrate the sociological conception of social action and subjective meaning with the so-called linguistic turn in the arts and science by formulating the narrative character of theorizing as the integration of speech and language in ways adumbrated by the Greeks, Hegel, Wittgenstein and Heidegger/ the implications of the linguistic turn which appear to be accepted by many contemporary approaches to theorizing such as symbolic interaction, ethnomethodology, semiotics, critical theory, structuralism and deconstruction are developed sympathetically as a critique of positivism but ultimately are seen as compromised by contradictory fears of totality or closure and various confusions between unity and community, rule and principle, concept and notion, and criticism and irony/ book seeking to reconcile a modern conception of discourse an of its indefinite expandibility with the classical conception of Paidea and reality in ways which avoid the possible excesses of either taken alone/ the self-reflective actor as an ideal/ Husserl's Conciousness as an Accomplishment/ Marx's The Social Production of Consciousness/ De Saussure's conception of the sign/ modes of otherness in symbolic interaction and Ethnomethodology/ the notion of Pedagogy/ the social order problem etc.

159 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984