Dennis Wrong

The Persistence of the Particular

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Definitions of human beings as "symbolic animals" emphasize our capacity to form theories and general laws that can be applied to common social experience

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9781412805018
• ISBN-10: 1412805015
• Artikelnr.: 22128483

Autorenporträt

Dennis Wrong

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Irreducible Particularities of Human Experience
2. Theory and Knowledge: The Sciences and Humanities
3. The Eternal Questions of Social Theory
4. The Symbolic Animal
5. The Value Ambience of Social Theory
6. Art and Its Powers of Transcendence
7. The Historical
the Transhistorical
and the Subhistorical
8. Summary and Conclusion
Index