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Return Of Grand Theory In The Human Sciences
Paperback Edition: 1/1990
The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin Skinner's Introduction traces broad transformations such as the erosion of empiricist assumptions and the undermining
of the positivist ideal of the unification of the sciences by the impact of foreign traditions on English-speaking social science. The essays themselves discuss major figures such as Gadamer, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Althusser and Levi-Strauss, giving valuably lucid introductory studies of some difficult but unquestionably major thinkers of our time.
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Pages : 224
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Social & Cultural History, Social & Political Philosophy, History Of Ideas