Philosophy of Society

The Philosophy of Society (1978) examines no less a weighty subject than human society. In fifteen essays, it analyses a series of fundamentally important questions about how human beings organise themselves.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Forms of Social Life Introduction Rodger Beehler. 1. Nature and Convention Peter Winch 2. Morality and Pessimism Stuart Hampshire 3. Understanding a Primitive Society H.O. Mounce Part 2. Social Reality and Social Inquiry Introduction Rodger Beehler. 4. Behaviouralism in Political Science John Cook 5. Psychology and Ideology Noam Chomsky 6. Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Charles Taylor Part 3. Social Institutions and Social Change Introduction Alan R. Drengson. 7. Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism Karl Popper 8. 'Social Engineering' Rush Rhees 9. Between Obedience and Revoluton Clyde Frazier Part 4. Cultural Relativism Introduction Alan R. Drengson. 10. Anthropology and the Abnormal Ruth Benedict 11. Cultural Relativism as an Ethnocentric Notion John Cook 12. On Seeing Things Differently Richard Norman Part 5. Community Introduction Alan R. Drengson. 13. Reason, Rules and the 'Community' A.E. Murphy 14. Oppression Simone Weil 15. Alienation and Anomie Steven Lukes

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rodger Beehler and Alan R. Drengson

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rodger Drengson Beehler
• Mitarbeit: Beehler Rodger (Herausgeber), Drengson Alan R. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032587523
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258752-3
• Seiten: 446
• Serie: Routledge Revivals
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, Social groups, Social, group or collective psychology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social groups, communities and identities