Mikael Klintman

Human Sciences and Human Interests (eBook, ePUB)

Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes how the 'rival' approaches of social science, economics, and evolutionary science understand various dimensions of human interests, and what these human sciences can learn from each other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317484172
• Artikelnr.: 45681815

Autorenporträt

Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman's previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Manifest and Latent Interests
1. Dual systems in the human sciences
2. The Apollonian dimension
3. The Dionysian dimension
Part II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests
4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem
5. The blank slate and its critics
6. Understanding the prepared slate
Part III: Interests, Continuity and Change
7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change
8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change
9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and change
Conclusions
References