Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Civic Discourse and the Travails of Social Truth 2. The Positivist Habit of Mind Metaphysics, Social Theory, and Social Control 3. The Romantic Alternative and Its Limits A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romanticism 4. Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss The Dialectic of Agency and Structure in Theories of the Social 5. Metaphor and Knowledge of History I Organicism and Mechanism in the Study of Social Change 6. Metaphor and Knowledge of History II Structuralism, Phenomenology, and the Tropes of Linguistic Figuration 7. Bureaucracy as Praxis Toward a Political Symbology of Formal Organization 8.

Social Planning as Symbolic Practice Toward a Liberating Discourse for Societal Self-Direction Notes References Index.