This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
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Very Good. Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Size: 9x6x0; 1st printing of 1st edition. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Previous owner's book plate on front paste-down and name written at top edge of title page; interior appears free of other markings. Corners sharp. Unclipped DJ looks very nice. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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First edition of Searle's reply to Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Searle on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Henri Matisse. Widely acknowledged for his contributions to social philosophy, American philosopher and professor John Rogers Searle has published dozens of theoretical texts debating the constructs of language, consciousness and reality. Searle published The Consctruction of Social Reality as a direct response to French philosopher Jacques Derrida's theory of deconstruction which critiques the relationship between text and meaning.
Searle's General Theory of Institutions contain the underlying tools for institutional analysis of the political basis for liberal democratic regimes. This is a subject that has long been neglected by Political Scientists. Political Institutional Theorist s should pay attention to Searle for a meaningful theoretical debate on the subject matter of institutional effects on outcomes. I shall forever remain grateful that my supervisor recommended the book to me after a fruitless search for an appropriate theory in Political Science for understanding how institutions affects the actions of autonomous practical rational actors. The theory is a gem of among institutional theories. All graduate students concerned with institutional analysis of social interaction outcomes are encouraged to take a look for themselves.