num_pages: 256
description: 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. "John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents might find intolerably abrasive were it not for the good humour that pervades all he writes. This is a man who likes a good philosophical brawl." --New Scientist
language: English
title: The Construction of Social Reality
titlecomplete: The Construction of Social Reality
genres: Society, Language, Philosophy, Cultural, Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Social Science, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 852
publisher: Free Press