This thought-provoking and ambitious book is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. John Levi Martin argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory.
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This thought-provoking and ambitious book is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. John Levi Martin argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory.
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