The Human Difference: Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science

by Alan Wolfe

Book Overview

"An eloquent and exquisitely reasoned plea for a social science based on what is distinctively human about human beings-their capacity to create meaning by the forms of interpretation that make human culture possible. This book is a lively attack on the growing antihumanism of so much contemporary social science, and it deserves a wide audience."
-Jerome Bruner, New York University

"Wolfe's style of argument is of enormous scope, virtuosity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520089413
• ISBN13: 9780520089419
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"