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Continental Philosophy of Social Science

By Yvonne Sherratt

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0521854695, 9780521854696
LCC
BD241 .S497 2006
Open Library ID
OL22716253M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1795674 bytes)
Pages
254\255
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the continental traditional approach to social science in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogical and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherrat demonstrates how these modes of thinking developed through the ages to become part of twentieth-century disciplines.

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