The Return of grand theory in the human sciences

Dados Bibliográficos

ID24201312
AutoresQuentin Skinner
Ano1988
Páginas215
Data de publicação1988-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe Return of grand theory in the human sciences (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
Open LibraryOL20061070M
ISBN9780521266925
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas159

Publisher description: This is a volume of new essays introducing the most influential developments in social and political theory over the last thirty years. In that period empiricism and the positivist ideal of the unification of science have been undermined and transformed by the impact of different, frequently Continental, traditions of thought. The introduction charts these charges and each of the contributors provides a brief and lucid account of the thought of one major figure or school which have helped to bring about these changes. Those discussed include Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Habermas, Kuhn, Levi-Strauss, Rawls and the Annales historians. Each essay has suggestions for further reading and a useful general bibliography is provided at the end of the volume.

20th century · Addresses, essays, lectures · Philosophy · Social history · Social sciences · Social scientists