Clifford S. Poirot Jr.

Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophy and Applications

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization, and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000838237
• Artikelnr.: 67059867

Autorenporträt

Clifford S. Poirot Jr. received his PhD in Economics in 1992 from the University of Utah. He has published several articles on Evolutionary Economics. He has taught at several institutions. He is currently teaching courses in both Economics and Political Science at Shawnee State University. He has been at Shawnee State since 1999.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
* Goal and Purpose of this Study
* Scope and Method of this Study
* Plan of this Study
1: The Origins of Evolutionary Social Theory
* Introduction
* Natural Philosophy and the Newtonian World View
* Civil, or Moral Philosophy
* Philosophical History and Political Economy in the Scottish and
French Enlightenment
* Conclusion
2: The Development of Evolutionary Social Theory: 1815-1871
* Introduction
* Philosophy of Science in the Early and Mid-19th Century
* Evolutionary Theory: Biological and Social before Darwin
* The Trajectory of Political Economy
* Darwin's Biology
* The Ramifications of Darwin's Theories
* Conclusion
3: Social Evolutionism and Political Economy after Darwin
* Introduction
* Darwin's Impact on Philosophy of Science
* The More General Theory of Sociology
* The End of Political Economy: Marx, Marshall and Veblen
* Conclusion
4: The Dénouement of Evolutionary Social Theory
* Introduction
* Philosophy of Science in the Early and Mid-20th Century
* Evolutionary Social Theory: Marginalization and Reaction in the
Social Sciences
* Conclusion
5: The Resurrection of Evolutionary Social Theory: Back to the Center?
* Introduction
* Philosophy of Science: Neo-Positivism
* Ontology and Epistemology: Critical Realism and Critical Common
Sensism
* Contemporary Evolutionary Biology: An Overview
* Biology and Evolutionary Social Theory
* Toward the Neo-Evolutionary Synthesis
* Conclusion
6: Conclusion