Ernest Gellner

Relativism and the Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. These essays reach towards a new style and mode of enquiry--a mixture of philosophy, history and anthropology--that promises to prove more revealing and fruitful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780521337984
• ISBN-10: 0521337984
• Artikelnr.: 21521044

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial preface I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi
Introduction
1. Positivism against Hegelianism
2. The gaffe-avoiding animal or a bundle of hypotheses
3. Relativism and universals
4. The scientific status of the social sciences (und leider auch Sociologie)
5. What is structuralism?
6. No haute cuisine in Africa
7. Concepts and community
Sources
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index.