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Author Ekegren, Peter, author.

Title The reading of theoretical texts : a critique of criticism in the social sciences / Peter Ekegren.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 19
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-202) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Epigraph; Preface; General introduction; Critiques; Excursus: 'discourse'; Notes; The social sciences and criticism; The understandings of the theories of value in Adam Smith and David Ricardo; Guilty understanding; Notes; Language and criticism; Languages; Saussure and his oppositions; Language, sign, difference and flow of meaning; Notes; The teleological mode of reading; Author and intention; The teleological mode of reading; Michael Dummett's 'exegesis'; Notes; Interpretation and the harmonious whole; The unity of the text.
Summary In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences.
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Subject Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Language.
Social sciences -- Language.
Social sciences.
Criticism, Textual.
Criticism, Textual.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ekegren, Peter. Reading of theoretical texts. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 041520772X (DLC) 99013471 (OCoLC)40744364
ISBN 0203171330 (electronic book)
9780203171332 (electronic book)
0203021827 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780203021828 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
041520772X (hardback)