Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Discourse and Polity Sociolinguistics, Language Use, and the Mobilization of Low-Income Groups 2. Personal Identity and Political Economy Western Grammars of the Self in Historical Perspective 3. Reason as Rhetorical On Relations between Epistemology, Discourse, and Practice 4. Theories of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Theories Emile Durkheim and the Political Symbology of Sociological Truth 5. Rhetoric and the Science of History The Debate between Evolutionism and Empiricism as a Conflict of Metaphors 6. Social Reality as Narrative Text Interactions, Institutions, and Polities as Language 7. Narrative Fiction as Social Text Literature, Literary Theory, and the Self as Social-Symbolic Act 8.

Literary Form and Sociological Theory Dialectical Irony as Emancipatory Discourse Notes References Index.