Journal article
Vico's ancient binarism and problems of social theory today
Social Semiotics, Vol.1(2), pp.194-212
1991
Abstract
In this paper, I want to suggest that the difference is ubiquitous - if hidden - and logically insoluble; that any step beyond a state in which there are at least two distinct methodologies in the social sciences is no small order. I want to suggest that it is and has been a fundamental aspect reflection upon the social world and the proper method of its description or explanation that contradictions should arise. That is, basic tensions in social science methodology (objectivism/subjectivism; positivism/humanism; structuralism/phenomenology...) are the products of a particular style or technique of philosophical practice. And this style is imbued with both a variety of differences such as contradictions, paradoxes, dilemmas, dualisms, binary oppositions as well as with attempts to suture these incongruities into what can seem like a unitary theory.
Details
- Title
- Vico's ancient binarism and problems of social theory today
- Authors/Creators
- A. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Social Semiotics, Vol.1(2), pp.194-212
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005541845407891
- Copyright
- 1991 Taylor & Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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