Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look (comparative Studies Of Health Systems And Medical Care)

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. Interpretation and the sciences of man / Charles Taylor The problem of historical consciousness / H.G. Gadamer Modernity an incomplete project / Jurgen Habermas What is enlightenment? / Michel Foucault The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding / Albert O. Hirschmann Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz The language of terror / Michael Taussig Moral/analytic dilemmas posed by the intersection of feminism and social science / Michelle Z. Rosaldo The art of managing / Donald A. Schon From Socrates to expert systems / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus Postmodern and consumer society / Fredric Jameson The quest for the self / Robert N. Bellah. Interpretation and the sciences of man / Charles Taylor The problem of historical consciousness / Hans-Georg Gadamer Modernity an incomplete project / Jürgen Habermas What is enlightenment? / Michel Foucault The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding / Albert O. Hirschmann Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz Culture of terror / Michael Taussig Moral/analytic dilemmas posed by the intersection of feminism and social science / Michelle Z. Rosaldo The art of managing / Donald A. Schön From Socrates to expert systems / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus The politics of theory / Fredric Jameson The quest for the self / Robert N. Bellah. 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. -- Publisher description Over the past decade interpretation has gained a certain currency, even prestige, in philosophical circles and in the social sciences.