Interpretation and Social Criticism

by Michael Walzer

Book Overview

What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize?

Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as a social practice. Walzer maintains that social criticism is an ordinary activity--less the offspring of scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674459717
• ISBN13: 9780674459717
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"