Continental Philosophy of Social Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521670982)

Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the continental traditional approach to social science in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogical and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherrat demonstrates how these modes of thinking developed through the ages to become part of twentieth-century disciplines.

Author: Yvonne Sherratt
ISBN-10: 0521670985
ISBN-13: 9780521670982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.48w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 12