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A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Author: Manicas Peter T.
Language: EnglishSubject for A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences:
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356 p. · 15.6x22.8 cm · Paperback
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The book is in three main parts. It deals firstly with the history of certain key ides from the early modern period (assessing thinkers from Hobbes and Marx to Hegel, Weber, and Kuhn), before exploring the institutional and social features which have shaped the emergence of modern social science. Manicas goes on to reveal the ideological component of mainstream social science, concluding by suggesting and alternative realist philosophy for the future.
Rigorous in scholarship and engaging in presentation, the book offers a brilliant combination of wide-ranging historical scholarship and a firm location in the current theoretical dilemmas of the social sciences.
Author's Note viii
Part I The Critical Ideas
Introduction 3
1 Science and Philosophy 7
2 Of the Commonwealth 24
3 The Emergence of Political Economy 37
4 Progress: The Laws of Development 53
5 The German Conception of History: Herder or Hegel? 73
6 Scientific Socialism: Marxian Dialectics 97
7 From Ranke to Max Weber 117
8 Economy and Society: The Sociology of Pareto and Durkheim 141
9 The Genesis of Psychology 168
Part II The Modern Social Sciences
10 Capitalism, Science, and the University 193
11 The Americanization of Social Science 213
Part III Realist Philosophy of Social Science
12 The Critique of Empiricism 241
13 A Realist Social Science 266
14 Psychology: Theoretical and Applied 294
Bibliography 319
Index 336