Kipen s reply was that there was an element of parody in his writer-centred theory, in that he hoped to overcorrect the director-centred model in such a way that the final average of the two is a more realistic representation.
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J�rgen Habermas argues, in his " On the Logic of the Social Sciences " ( 1967 ), that " the positivist thesis of unified science, which assimilates all the sciences to a natural-scientific model, fails because of the intimate relationship between the social sciences and history, and the fact that they are based on a situation-specific understanding of meaning that can be explicated only hermeneutically & access to a symbolically prestructured reality cannot be gained by observation alone . " Phenomenology would later prove influential in the subject-centred theory of the post-structuralists.