Author: Werner Sombart
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Manuel DeLanda
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441114483
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them.

Author: Joel Feinberg
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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This book discusses problems of conceptual analysis as well as normative issues of vital contemporary concern.

Author: Richard Schmitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742565262
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Social and political philosophy, unlike other fields and disciplines, involves conflict, disagreement, deliberation, and action. This text takes a new approach and understands philosophy not so much as a story of great thinkers or as a collection of philosophical positions but as a series of debates and disagreements in which students must participate. Adopting what may be called an 'active learning' method, Richard Schmitt, who has long taught social and political philosophy in the Ivy Leagues as well at state colleges, presents a range of problems and debates which engage the core question of freedom. Too often, students are bewildered, and then bored, by highly abstract philosophical questions because they are unable to connect those abstract issues to their own life experiences. This text immediately connects issues and experiences, and provides integrated, on-going questions to spark dialogue, whether in class settings or in the reader's own mind, and to help students form strong arguments with good reasons for their positions. In the course of examining different current controversies, the book develops theories of democracy, equality, the state, property, autonomy, and the role of morality in politics, all of which are standard for courses in social and political philosophy.

Author: Daniel Little
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783487410
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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An accessible introduction to the latest developments and debates in the philosophy of social science.

Author: Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: James Bohman
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745614083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Now available in paperback, this book offers an original introduction to the philosophy of social science, emphasising new post-empiricist approaches.

Author: Hans Fink
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131765112X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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The programmes of political parties and movements are attempts to formulate policies or guidelines in relation to social change. Social philosophy concerns the fundamental issues on which those programmes divide. This introductory work gives an account of several highly influential systems of social philosophy – systems which serve as the landmarks by reference to which modern discussions still orientate themselves. The description of various stages in the history of social philosophy is set within an account of its changing social environment – from feudalism and the philosophy of Aquinas to the rise of the working class and socialism. The book confines itself to the Western tradition and one could say that it charts the rise and fall of the free market as the central institution and the key to the understanding of society.

Author: Andrew Brower Latz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498243894
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a systematic whole. Based on new archive research and examining the full range of Rose's sources, it explains her theory of modern society, her unique version of ideology critique, and her views on law and mutual recognition. Brower Latz relates Rose's work to numerous debates in sociology and philosophy, such as the relation of theory to metatheory, emergence, and the relationship of sociology and philosophy. This book makes clear not only Rose's difficult texts but the entire structure of her thought, making her complete social theory accessible for the first time.

Author: Peter J. Boettke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137411600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of Hayek’s thought. These include the division of knowledge, the importance of rules, the problems with planning and economic management, and the role of constitutional constraints in enabling the emergence of unplanned order in the market by limiting the perverse incentives and distortions in information often associated with political discretion. Key to understanding Hayek's development as a thinker is his emphasis on the knowledge problem that economic decision makers face and how alternative institutional arrangements either hinder or assist them in overcoming that epistemic dilemma. Hayek saw order emerging from individual action and responsibility under the appropriate institutional order that itself emerges from actors discovering new and better ways to coordinate their behavior. This book will be of interest to all those keen to gain a deeper understanding of this great 20th century thinker in economics.