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"What makes something social? Is human social reality, the
object-domain of the human sciences, essentially opaque to the
explanatory method of nomological objectivity that characterizes
the physical sciences? Do historical and cultural underpinnings of
human existence severely restrain the ambition of objectivity in
the human sciences? Or, is there a sui generis paradigm of social
objectivity in social enquiry, such as illustrated by Marxism and
Ethnomethodology? Besides, do diversity of traditions constrain
social understanding in a way that inevitably results in cultural
relativism? What does understanding tradition consist in, including
whatever we might mean by the Indian tradition? These questions
about humanity and tradition are dealt with in this book from a
variety of interesting perspectives. Together these various modes
of understanding provide an illuminating account of human
self-understanding in social enquiry."
Why do people respond emotionally to fiction when they know that it
is only make-believe? This question which is fundamental to
aesthetics and literary studies, is here tackled from a new
perspective. The author first discusses the various answers that
have been offered by philosophers form Aristotle to Roger Scruton.
He shows that while some philosophers have denied any rational
basis to our emotional responses to fiction, others have argued
that the emotions evoked by fiction are not real emotions at all.
In contrast, Dr Boruah argues that fictional emotions are rational,
and that they are based on the same sorts of beliefs that we form
about real situations and real people. He illustrates his
discussion throughout by an extensive use of literary examples,
ranging from Shakespeare to Tolstoy.
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