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The Laws of History (Hardcover, New)
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The Laws of History (Hardcover, New)
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The quest for the laws underlying the history of human societies
has occupied some of the greatest thinkers in history, from
Heraclitus and Plato to Marx and J.S. Mill. And yet today
historicism is widely considered to be intellectually discredited.
In this unorthodox and trail-blazing work Graeme Snooks argues that
it is possible to construct a scientific theory of human nature. On
the basis of this paradigm shift the author lays bare the forces
driving human society from its earlier beginnings to its present
stage of evolution. The text is divided into two parts that combine
methodological, sociological and historical reflection. Part I
considers the nature of laws, the reasons we might expect to find
them at work in history, and why their formulation escaped the
great historicists of the past. Part II employs a novel inductive
framework to draw out the general propositions underlying the
different forms of human society. These general propositions
concerning societal dynamics, historical change and institutional,
are the laws of history.
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