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The Challenge of the Exception - An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Carl Schmitt Between 1921 and 1936 (Hardcover, 2nd... The Challenge of the Exception - An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Carl Schmitt Between 1921 and 1936 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
George Schwab
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked the ideas of Carl Schmitt, a leading political theorist and jurist who influenced the thoughts of, among others, Hannah Arendt, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Otto Kirchheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Franz Neumann, and Leo Strauss. Professor Schwab clearly articulates Schmitt's key concepts and relates their centrality to politics and the state, to the political theory of liberalism, democracy and authoritarianism, and to international relations. When Schwab treats Schmitt's interpretations of constitutional questions, for example, he shows how political theory in Germany is inextricably linked with constitutional law, legal theory, and the country's history. Not content to merely deal with Schmitt's profound contributions to twentieth-century thought, Schwab devotes considerable space to the unconscionable compromises that he made with the Third Reich. This, however, failed to help him become the political and legal theorist of Hitler's Germany. Schwab shows how the new Schmitt was suspect from the beginning and, by 1936, Schmitt the hunter had become Schmitt the hunted. Schwab's presentation of the multifaceted Carl Schmitt exposes the reader to a truly interdisciplinary excursion into the humanities and social sciences.

Satire, Lies and Politics - The Case of Dr Arbuthnot (Hardcover): C. Condren Satire, Lies and Politics - The Case of Dr Arbuthnot (Hardcover)
C. Condren
R2,867 Discovery Miles 28 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This, the first full analysis of Arbuthnot's Art of Political Lying (1712), argues that the work is a commentary on long-standing themes of debate in science, rhetoric and philosophy and should be seen as a seminal satire standing in opposition to the practice of Swift and Pope. Rather than simply condemning dishonesty, Arbuthnot raises serious questions about the elusive nature of truth in politics. The argument thus traverses literary analysis, intellectual history and philosophy. An original version of the Art of Political Lying , based on English and French editions is supplied in the appendix.

D.M. Armstrong (Hardcover, 1984 ed.): R Bogdan D.M. Armstrong (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
R Bogdan
R4,536 Discovery Miles 45 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathe maticians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already out standing personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of pillJosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profes sion. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will sum marize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of Significant con tribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, re ferences to significant reviews and discussions will also be included."

Paribrajak (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Paribrajak (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Scepticism in the Enlightenment (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): R.H. Popkin, Ezequiel De Olaso, Giorgio Tonelli Scepticism in the Enlightenment (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
R.H. Popkin, Ezequiel De Olaso, Giorgio Tonelli
R2,985 Discovery Miles 29 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period was launched. The late Giorgio Tonelli and the late Ezequiel de Olaso examined in great detail the kinds of scepticism developed during the Enlightenment, and the kind of answer to scepticism that was developed by Leibniz. Their original researches and interpretations are of great value and importance. As a result of their work Popkin modified his original claims, as shown in the last two articles in this volume. The book contains an introduction by Popkin and 10 essays, two of which have never been published before. This collection should be of interest to students and scholars of 18th century thought in England, France and Germany.

Hume on Motivation and Virtue (Hardcover): C. Pigden Hume on Motivation and Virtue (Hardcover)
C. Pigden
R1,536 Discovery Miles 15 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This collection is devoted to questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology arising from the work of David Hume. The collection focuses on questions arising from Humes views on reason, motivation and virtue including new essays from notable Hume scholars"--Provided by publisher.

Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): R. D. Gallie Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
R. D. Gallie
R2,996 Discovery Miles 29 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REID Thomas Reid (1710-96) was born at Strachan in Kincardineshire, Scotland, not far from Aberdeen. Reid was fortunate in his family connections. For instance his mother's brother was David Gregory, Savilian professor of Astronomy at Oxford and close friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Reid entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, at the age of twelve after the usual spell in Aberdeen Grammar School. After a short period as college librarian he married his cousin Margaret Gregory, having gained the position of (Presbyterian) minister at New Machar, in the gift of King's College, Aberdeen, which he held from 1737 till 1752. Although Reid published only one paper, An Essay on Quantity, in this period he was far from intellectually idle; for one thing he familiarised himself with the works of Bishop Butler, especially The Analogy of Religion, which, together with those of Samuel Clarke and Isaac Newton, were to have a profound influence on his mature philosophy. In 1752 Reid was appointed a regent at King's College, Aberdeen. During his regency he not only founded a crucially important discussion group, 'The Wise Club', and familiarised himself with David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature both through his own reading and by exhaustive discussion of it within the group; he also wrote extensively. He composed and delivered his seminal Latin Philosophical Orations.

Levinas and Education - At the Intersection of Faith and Reason (Hardcover): Denise Egea-Kuehne Levinas and Education - At the Intersection of Faith and Reason (Hardcover)
Denise Egea-Kuehne
R5,392 Discovery Miles 53 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness and more, as its contributing authors address some fundamental educational issues such as: what it means to be a teacher; what it means to learn from a teacher; the role of language in the curriculum; literature, ethics, and education; moral education and human relations in schools; ethics of responsibility and philosophical-pedagogical discourse; educational hospitality and interculturalism; unconditional responsibility and education; educating for participatory democratic citizenship; the pedagogy of peace; logic, rationality, and ethics; connecting teaching to spirituality. Levinas always insisted that his aim was not to provide "a program," and accordingly, it is not the intent of the authors to look in Levinas's texts for a set of guidelines, rules, or precepts to be applied to education. Rather, this study invites educators, and researchers in philosophy and philosophy of education, to a thoughtful and critical reading of Levinas, and to engage with his unique style of analysis and questioning as they uncover with these authors the necessity and the possibility of thinking education anew in terms of ethics, justice, responsibility, hope and faith.

Problems of the Hegelian Dialectic - Dialectic Reconstructed as a Logic of Human Reality (Hardcover, 1992 ed.): M. Rosen Problems of the Hegelian Dialectic - Dialectic Reconstructed as a Logic of Human Reality (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
M. Rosen
R4,515 Discovery Miles 45 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, I deal with some fundamental problems of the Hegelian dialectic. For this purpose, I take a middle course between total scepticism, which considers dialectic as a devastator sophistry with no respect even for the non-contradiction principle, and authoritarian dogmatism, which claims to solve any question with the magic wand of the Hegelian Aufhebung. That is, I decide to be critical, defining concepts anew, bringing out sources, determining conditions of possibility and fields of validity, accepting or rejecting when necessary. Following G. R. G. Mure's thinking, from an inner point of view I examine whether, in carrying out his work, Hegel remains faithful to the different principles he proclaims, and I find substantial deviations. And, following W. Becker's thinking, from an external point of view, that is, from a formal, empirical or existential contemporary angle, I try to determine the extent to which we may legitimately talk about the fruitfulness of Hegelian dialectic. In this way, I reconstruct Hegel's thought so that it may become acceptable to us-readers of the twentieth-century-as intelligible and coherent as possible. I conclude that dialectic, as a logic of human reality, has to be grasped and expressed from the viewpoint of the particular historical individual, in constant interaction with the cultural environment of his or her time. Using this approach, I investigate the questions at issue from Hegel's Logic point of view.

The Theory of Mind as Pure Act - & The Philosophic Basis of Fascism (Hardcover): Giovanni Gentile The Theory of Mind as Pure Act - & The Philosophic Basis of Fascism (Hardcover)
Giovanni Gentile; Translated by H. Wildon Carr
R1,975 Discovery Miles 19 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hegel's 'Individuality' - Beyond Category (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Martin Donougho Hegel's 'Individuality' - Beyond Category (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Martin Donougho
R3,628 Discovery Miles 36 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of ‘individuality’ (Individualität). Hegel joined a lively conversation, from Leibniz to Romanticism and beyond, about this novel concept/phenomenon. Successive chapters track Hegel’s engagement, in such texts as the Phenomenology, Encyclopedia, and Aesthetics. Hegel’s system tends to follow a syllogistic logic (universal, particular, singular), but ‘individuality’ departs from the norm. The category enacts a certain pragmatics (as against semantics or syntactics) regarding tacit assumptions at work or implicit terms of address, which requires active participation by a thinking subject charged with discerning individuality (which bars resort to explicit rules). The category reflexively implicates the user even in presuming an objective context. ‘Individuality’ should not be confused with ‘individualism,’ wholly distinct in origin. Moreover, Hegel’s Aesthetics embraces a paradoxical anachronism. Like ‘art’ itself, ‘individuality’ emerged as an essentially modern category, though one transferred to the past and to distant cultures.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Souls, Science and Human Beings (Hardcover): D. Cockburn An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Souls, Science and Human Beings (Hardcover)
D. Cockburn
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book differs from others by rejecting the dualist approach associated in particular with Descartes. It also casts serious doubt on the forms of materialism that now dominate English language philosophy. Drawing in particular on the work of Wittgenstein, a central place is given to the importance of the notion of a human being in our thought about ourselves and others.

Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Paolo Bussotti, Brunello Lotti Cosmology in the Early Modern Age: A Web of Ideas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Paolo Bussotti, Brunello Lotti
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The authors reconstruct the development of cosmological ideas in the age of 'scientific revolution' from Copernicus to Leibniz, taking into account the growth of a unified celestial-and-terrestrial mechanics. The volume investigates how, in the rise of the new science, cosmology displayed deep and multifaceted interrelations between scientific notions (stemming from mechanics, mathematics, geometry, astronomy) and philosophical concepts. These were employed to frame a general picture of the universe, as well as to criticize and interpret scientific notions and observational data. This interdisciplinary work reconstructs a conceptual web pervaded by various intellectual attitudes and drives. It presents an historical-epistemological unified itinerary which includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Leibniz. For each of the scientists and philosophers, a presentation and commentary is made of their cosmological views, and where relevant, outlines of their most relevant physical concepts are given. Furthermore, the authors highlight the philosophical and epistemological implications of their scientific works. This work is helpful both as a synthetic overview of early modern cosmology, and an analytical exposition of the elements that were intertwined in early-modern cosmology. This book addresses historians, philosophers, and scientists and can also be used as a research source book by post-graduate students in epistemology, history of science and history of philosophy.

Autopsia - Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida (Hardcover): Marius Timmann Mjaaland Autopsia - Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida (Hardcover)
Marius Timmann Mjaaland; Translated by Brian McNeil
R6,085 Discovery Miles 60 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are certain things that can be explained and certain things that cannot be explained. This book is about the latter. It is a book about death: how death interrupts and influences the reflection on the self. It is a book about God: a detailed and critical discussion on how Kierkegaard and Derrida apply the concept of God in their philosophical reflections. The most ground-breaking analysis concerns the famous passage on the self (A.A) in The Sickness unto Death, where the author combines logical, rhetorical and dialectical means to establish a new perspective on Kierkegaard's thinking in general. The Cartesian doubt then constitutes a common trait for his detailed and rigorous analysis of Derrida and Kierkegaard on death, madness, faith, and rationality - showing how they both seek to break up the Hegelian Aufhebung from within, but still remain dependent on Hegel. After Kierkegaard and Derrida, the certainty and total uncertainty of death - and of God as infinite other - gives the self a basic, though non-foundational, responsibility. The significance of this responsibility, of this other, of this death, requires sustained and thorough consideration. Where others mark a conclusion, this book therefore marks a point of departure: reflecting on oneself at the graveside of a dead man - thus introducing an Autopsia.

Returning to Irigaray - Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity (Paperback): Maria C. Cimitile, Elaine P Miller Returning to Irigaray - Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity (Paperback)
Maria C. Cimitile, Elaine P Miller
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Luce Irigaray is one of the most influential philosophers and theorists in the field of feminist thought, and her work is considered both revolutionary and controversial. This volume offers the first critical assessment of the relation between her early poetic writings to her later political applied philosophy. Contributors examine how the question of sexual difference has unfolded in a wealth of different directions in Irigaray's later work, focusing on the areas of nature and technology, social and political theory and praxis, ethics, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. They also address whether there has been a radical conceptual "turn" in Irigaray's thought by exploring the idea of a "turn" as a return to themes that have concerned her all along. By considering each of her views in relation to the entirety of her work, readers will come to appreciate the richness of her thought.

How Handedness Shapes Lived Experience, Intersectionality, and Inequality - Hand and World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Peter... How Handedness Shapes Lived Experience, Intersectionality, and Inequality - Hand and World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Peter Westmoreland
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book delivers philosophy’s first sustained examination of handedness: being left-handed, right-handed, etc. It engages literature from phenomenology and continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, laterality studies, cognitive science and psychology, gender studies and feminist philosophy, sociology, political science, and more to provide a systematic accounting of the nature of handedness, its basis in lived experience, its effects on bodily performance, its role in varieties of inequality, and its part in oppression and liberation. As a radical asymmetry in the body, handedness plays a key role in human flourishing. It informs both personal bodily movement and social life, from handshakes and high fives to high tech tools made for one hand or the other. Moreover, with left-handers making up just 10% of the population, handedness presents a significant inequality in lived experience. To live and live well, we must understand handedness.

Dilemmas of Truth in Alain Badiou's Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Giosue Ghisalberti Dilemmas of Truth in Alain Badiou's Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Giosue Ghisalberti
R3,593 Discovery Miles 35 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book on Alain Badiou's philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth. By defining four procedures as conditions of philosophy, Badiou makes the attempt to establish each as inter-related and systematically necessary to make a new proposal for thought. The fidelity to Badiou's project for the 21st century, however, requires a fundamental examination: are his four truths complicated by an inescapable dilemma? And if so, can the four truths be retained, as a whole, or does the individual reader have to make a decision that will alter Badiou's project and conclusions? By presenting the dilemmas of his thought, the scholarly reader will be in a position to then pursue the necessary study to come to their own conclusions and, by doing so, become sufficiently free to resist the many coercions of social and political life in liberal democracies today.

Nietzsche, Psychohistory, and the Birth of Christianity (Hardcover): Morgan Rempel Nietzsche, Psychohistory, and the Birth of Christianity (Hardcover)
Morgan Rempel
R2,751 Discovery Miles 27 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite characterizing himself as the antichrist, Nietzsche had great respect for Jesus and his message and often identified with his life. His opinion of early Christianity--and particularly of St. Paul, the single most hated figure in Nietzsche's passionate career--however, was very different. This volume brings order to Nietzsche's scattered reflections on Jesus, St. Paul, and the birth of Christianity by tracing the development of his ideas and examining the intellectual reality behind his deliberately confrontational remarks concerning early Christianity's key players. By analyzing exactly what it is that Nietzsche celebrates and identifies with in the life and message of Jesus, and criticizes so harshly in the case of St. Paul, the author provides fresh insight into the mind and the philosophy of one of the 19th century's most original thinkers.

Time, Memory, and Society (Hardcover): Franco Ferrarotti Time, Memory, and Society (Hardcover)
Franco Ferrarotti
R2,196 Discovery Miles 21 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why should the sociologist concern himself with time? asks Franco Ferrarotti in his latest work. Temporality is, he argues, the essential fluid dimension in the study of the social. Including time as a factor in sociological analysis is the only way to reintroduce the dynamic moment of social reality as a mental construct into an analytical process otherwise reified by the limits of quantitative methods. Ultimately, Ferrarotti contends, the usual way of laying out and proceeding with sociological analysis must be decisively inverted. This book is challenging reading for the sociologist and philosopher alike. Why should the sociologist concern himself with time? asks Franco Ferrarotti in his latest work. Temporality is, he argues, the essential fluid dimension in the study of the social. Including time as a factor in sociological analysis is the only way to reintroduce the dynamic moment of social reality as a mental construct into an analytical process otherwise reified by the limits of quantitative methods. The biographical and autobiographical approaches are also rooted in time. They elicit a problematic human situation and distinguish radically between the technical problem, resolvable through the exact practical application of a given, ideally indifferent, and interchangable formula, and the human dimension. Ultimately, Ferrarotti contends, the usual way of laying out and proceeding with sociological analysis must be decisively inverted. The order of priorities in the research process now followed in the human sciences tends to encourage the loss of the sense of the problem through the crude postulation of technical and human problems as equivalent. Time, Memory, and Society will be challenging, thought provoking reading for the sociologist, social theorist, and philosopher.

Tatting and Netting (Hardcover): Butterick Publishing Tatting and Netting (Hardcover)
Butterick Publishing
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover): Robin Truth Goodman Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
Robin Truth Goodman
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno’s social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno’s philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism’s evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno’s Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.

Simone Weil - Thinking Poetically (Paperback): Joan Dargan Simone Weil - Thinking Poetically (Paperback)
Joan Dargan
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Simone Weil created a memorable ceuvre remarkable for its lucid, striking, and seemingly transparent prose. Aphoristic and impersonal in tone, it is the instrument of a master stylist. The first to recognize Weil's achievement as a writer, this book situates her work within the French literary tradition, showing its affinities with Pascal and Budelaire, and acknowledges its kinship to the works of poets and writers of her generation, notably the poets Rene Char and Marina Tsvetaeva. The parallel between Weil's concept of decreation and the impersonality of the speaker in-her prose is shown ultimately to be to her will to surpass the boundaries of the written page in her drive to self-immolation. Close reading of passages from her notebooks, several short texts, and a proposal for front-line nurses addressed to the Free French illustrates the forces and influences at work in her writing.

The Pioneers of '49 - a History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England From Boston to the... The Pioneers of '49 - a History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England From Boston to the Leading Cities of the Golden State, April 10 - May 17, 1890 With Reminiscences and Descriptions /by Nicholas Ball (Hardcover)
Nicholas 1828-1896 Ball
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Toward Another Shore - Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance (Hardcover, New): Aileen M. Kelly Toward Another Shore - Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance (Hardcover, New)
Aileen M. Kelly
R2,376 Discovery Miles 23 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this thought-provoking book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and about the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers inspired by libertarian humanism. Aileen Kelly sets the conflict between utopian and anti-utopian traditions in Russian thought within the context of the shift in European thought away from faith in universal systems and "grand narratives" of progress toward an acceptance of the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. In the current age, as we face the dilemma of how to prevent the erosion of faith in absolutes and final solutions from ending in moral nihilism, we have much to learn from the struggles, failures, and insights of Russian thinkers, Kelly says. Her essays-some of them tours de force that have appeared before as well as substantial new studies of Turgenev, Herzen, and the Signposts debate-illuminate the insights of Russian intellectuals into the social and political consequences of ideas of such seminal Western thinkers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Darwin. Russian Literature and Thought Series

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value - A Study of Philosophy, Ethics and Politics (Hardcover): Stephen P. Turner,... Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value - A Study of Philosophy, Ethics and Politics (Hardcover)
Stephen P. Turner, Regis A. Factor
R5,839 Discovery Miles 58 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought, and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised, and adapted in new contexts. The story of the dispute is itself fascinating, for it cuts across the major political and intellectual currents of the twentieth century, from positivism, pragmatism, and value-free social science, through the philosophy of Jaspers and Heidegger, to Critical Theory and the revival of Natural Right and Natural Law. As Weber's ideas were imported to Britain and America, they found new formulations and new adherents and critics, and became absorbed into different traditions and new issues. This book was first published in 1984.

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