Peter Winch

The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

Mitarbeit:Gaita, Raimond

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Produktbeschreibung

Here Winch addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society', drawing from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU43833
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9780415423588
• ISBN-10: 0415423589
• Artikelnr.: 22768963

Autorenporträt

Peter Winch (1926-1997). Born in Walthamstow, Essex, Peter Winch was an internationally respected Philosopher and an influential student of Wittgenstein. The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy is his most famous work.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition, Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition, 1. Philosophical Bearings, 2. The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour, 3. The Social Studies as Science, 4. The Mind and Society, 5. Concepts and Actions, Bibliography, Index

Rezensionen

'...far and away the liveliest and most cogent of the responses yet made to that staid official judgement of some years ago, that political philosophy must now be presumed dead.' - Times Literary Supplement

'...far and away the liveliest and most cogent of the responses yet made to that staid official judgement of some years ago, that political philosophy must now be presumed dead.' - Times Literary Supplement