Abstract
Preface Introduction: symbolic realism and cognitive aesthetics: an invitation Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman Part I. Structure, Consciousness and History: 1. Symbolic realism and sociological thought:beyond the positivist romantic debate Richard Harvey Brown 2. History and hermeneutics: Wilhelm Dilthey and the dialectics of interpretative method Richard Harvey Brown 3. The acceptance, rejection, and reconstruction of histories: on some controversies in the study of social and cultural change Stanford M. Lyman 4. The histories of 'mentalites': recent writings on revolution, criminality and death in France Robert Darnton Part II. Structure, Self, and Evil: 5. Architectonic man: on the structuring of lived experience Rom Harre 6. Social theory as confession: Parsonian sociology and the symbolism of evil Paul G. Creelan 7. Dignity versus survival? Reflections on the moral philosophy of social order Manfred Stanley Part III. Praxis and Utopia: 8. Dramaturgical and political enactments: toward an artistic foundation for political space Tracy B. Strong Toward a semiotic of utopia: Thomas More's Utopia Louis Marin.
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