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The Idea of a Social Science

And its Relation to Philosophy, 2nd Edition

By Peter Winch

Published November 8th 1990 by Routledge – 160 pages

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This classic text attempts to locate the social sciences on the intellectual map, utilizing the insights of Wittgenstein. Includes a new preface by the author.

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'Far and away the liveliest and most cogent of the responses yet made to that staid official judgement of some years ago, that political philosophy must now be presumed dead' - Times Literary Supplement (on the first edition)

Name: The Idea of a Social Science: And its Relation to Philosophy, 2nd Edition (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Peter Winch. This classic text attempts to locate the social sciences on the intellectual map, utilizing the insights of Wittgenstein. Includes a new preface by the author.
Categories: Philosophy of Social Science, Wittgenstein