Lebow Reason and Cause

Social Science and the Social World
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-80423-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Philosophy and social science assume that reason and cause are objective and universally applicable concepts. Through close readings of ancient and modern philosophy, history and literature, Richard Ned Lebow demonstrates that these concepts are actually specific to time and place. He traces their parallel evolution by focusing on classical Athens, the Enlightenment through Victorian England, and the early twentieth century. This important book shows how and why understandings of reason and cause have developed and evolved, in response to what kind of stimuli, and what this says about the relationship between social science and the social world in which it is conducted. Lebow argues that authors reflecting on their own social context use specific constructions of these categories as central arguments about the human condition. This highly original study will make an immediate impact across a number of fields with its rigorous research and the development of an innovative historicised epistemology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lebow, Richard Ned

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Homer and Sophocles; 3. Thucydides; 4. David Hume; 5. Dickens, Trollope, and Collins; 6. Max Weber; 7. Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka; 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Lebow, Richard Ned
Richard Ned Lebow is author, co-author, or editor of forty books and over 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. He has made contributions to international relations, political psychology, history, political theory, philosophy of science and classics. He has taught at leading universities in the US, UK and Europe. His books have won multiple awards.