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In this ambitious work, Fred Weinstein confronts the obstacles that have increasingly frustrated our attempts to explain social and historical reality. Traditionally, we have relied on history and social theory to describe the ways people understand the world they live in. But the ordering explanations we have always usedderived from the classical social theories originally forged by Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Durkheim, Freudhave collapsed. In the wake of this collapse or fall, the rival claims of fiction, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and history have created the dilemma of radical relativism, the prospect of multiple interpretations of any complex historical event. The basic strategy of social theory and the social sciencesthe search for underlying unitiesproves so inherently contradictory and has provided so little in the way of reliable knowledge of social and historical relationships that to many critics it seems no longer worth pursuing. Weinstein enters the debate by r

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 5/8/1990 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226886060, 978-0226886060
      ISBN10: 0226886069
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      Book Synopsis
      In this ambitious work, Fred Weinstein confronts the obstacles that have increasingly frustrated our attempts to explain social and historical reality. Traditionally, we have relied on history and social theory to describe the ways people understand the world they live in. But the ordering explanations we have always usedderived from the classical social theories originally forged by Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Durkheim, Freudhave collapsed. In the wake of this collapse or fall, the rival claims of fiction, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and history have created the dilemma of radical relativism, the prospect of multiple interpretations of any complex historical event. The basic strategy of social theory and the social sciencesthe search for underlying unitiesproves so inherently contradictory and has provided so little in the way of reliable knowledge of social and historical relationships that to many critics it seems no longer worth pursuing. Weinstein enters the debate by r

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