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- Title
LA FICTION DES SCIENCES SOCIALES. SUR QUELQUES USAGES DE LA LITTÉRATURE CHEZ ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN.
- Authors
LOYER, Emmanuelle
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of literary references in the social sciences, particularly in economist Albert O. Hirschman's writings. Hirschman's subversive attitudes to literature and his own field, his intellectual flexibility and lack of ideological constraints, as well as his background as a displaced German Jew and mastery of multiple languages, led him to reference such authors seemingly unrelated to economics as George Bernard Shaw, Jane Austen, and Charles Pierre Baudelaire. The author remarks that Hirschman's wide-ranging love of quotations, even from works with strong social criticism, freed Hirschman from scientism at the same time it gave him a better understanding of human nature and a more democratic outlook.
- Subjects
HIRSCHMAN, Albert O., 1915-2012; QUOTATION; SOCIAL criticism in literature; SCIENTISM; ECONOMISTS
- Publication
Tocqueville Review -- La Revue Tocqueville, 2010, Vol 31, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
0730-479X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/toc.2010.0003