Interpretation and social knowledge : on the use of theory in the human sciences

✍ Scribed by Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail)

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index

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