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Richard Harvey Brown
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 45
Citations - 2394
Richard Harvey Brown is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rhetoric & Human science. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 45 publications receiving 2377 citations.
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Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice.
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A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that science and art depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence and form.
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Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality.
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Society As Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality
TL;DR: Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text as mentioned in this paper.