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This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's
(1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften
(1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of
knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border
commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of
law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This
multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a
general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods
and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural
science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt
to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge
about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically
embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within
the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience.
According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a
complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human
action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this
structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification
toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book
opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K.
Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background
of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to
Alfred Schütz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with
and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students.
This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's
(1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften
(1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of
knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border
commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of
law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This
multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a
general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods
and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural
science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt
to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge
about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically
embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within
the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience.
According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a
complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human
action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this
structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification
toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book
opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K.
Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background
of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to
Alfred Schutz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with
and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students."
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