This study began in opposition to the predominance of notions of wording in the study of human culture and society. The analyses begin from the influential figures in the qualitative relationships between epistemology, aesthetics and society (such as Plato, Michelangelo, Kant, David, Durkheim, Manet and Lyotard) rather than the more usual quantitative applications of complexity/chaos theory whose influential figures are often mathematicians. The authors argue that much writing that currently passes for, to use a catch-all, postmodern "critical theory" (that claims heterogeneity and plurality as its truth) is both uncritical and homogeneous rather than heterogeneous. As such it represses both difference and our understanding of the social processes of differentiation.
- ISBN10 1840145188
- ISBN13 9781840145182
- Publish Date 28 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 July 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252
- Language English