The Saving Lie
Subtitle: Truth and Method in the Social Sciences
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812237306
Subjects: Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Social Science / General; Methodology; Social sciences
First sentence: Kenneth Burke, in A Grammar of Motives, wrote, "In any term we can posit a world, in the sense that we can treat the world in terms of it, seeing all as emanations, near or far, of its light" (1969a, 105).