Interpretation and Social Criticism

Name: Interpretation and Social Criticism
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ISBN: 9780674459717

ISBN-10: 0674459717

ISBN-13: 9780674459717

Edition: 1987

Authors: Michael Walzer

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What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize? Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as a social practice. Walzer maintains that social criticism is an ordinary activity--less the offspring of scientific knowledge than the "educated cousin of common complaint"-- and does not depend for its force or accuracy upon any sort of high theory. In his view, the social critic is not someone radically detached and disinterested, who looks at society as a…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 108
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English




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