Lorenzo Infantino

Individualism in Modern Thought

From Adam Smith to Hayek

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive survey of methodological individualism in social, political and economic thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Exploring the works of such figures as de Mandeville, Smith, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this study underlines the contrasts between methodological collectivism and methodological individualism. The detailed analysis offered here also reveals the theoretical presuppositions behind the collectivist and individualist traditions and the practical consequences of their applications. Infantino concludes in favour of individualism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780415757522
• ISBN-10: 0415757525
• Artikelnr.: 39699089

Autorenporträt

Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Sociology at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Bernard De Mandeville and Adam Smith
Chapter 3 Which Method?
Chapter 4 Durkheim and the Application of the Collectivistic Method
Chapter 5 Is an 'Individualistic' Reading of Durkheim Possible?
Chapter 6 Economists and Sociologists Compared
Chapter 7 The Early Parsons
Chapter 8 Conclusions