Abraham Edel

Relating Humanities and Social Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fourth volume of Edel's Science, Ideology and Value focuses in a Deweyan vein on the functional requirements at the base of the social sciences and humanities alike: discipline structures are subject to change, development, and decay, and even to categorial shifts as well as to readjustments

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780887383212
• ISBN-10: 0887383211
• Artikelnr.: 26183827

Autorenporträt

Abraham Edel

Inhaltsangabe

1. Comparative Modes of Inquiry: The Sciences and the Humanities
2. Theory and Practice: An Unsteady Dichotomy
3. Is the Individual-Social a Misleading Dichotomy?
4. Elitism and Culture
5. Legal Positivism: A Pragmatic Reanalysis
6. Analytic Philosophy of Education at the Crossroads
7. Anthropology and Ethics in Common Focus
8. The Confrontation of Anthropology and Ethics
9. Ethics-a Modest Science? 10. Ethical Theory in Twentieth-Century America
11. Form: The Philosophic Idea and Some of Its Problems
12. Biography among the Disciplines
13. What Place for Philosophy in Contemporary Thought? 14. The Humanities and the State Councils: Retooling in the 1980s
15. The Professors and the Grass Roots
16. The Good Citizen
the Good Person
and the Good Society
17. The Humanities and Public Policy: A Philosophical Perspective.