1st Edition

Maurice Mandelbaum and American Critical Realism

Edited By Ian Verstegen Copyright 2010
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Many have wondered about the similarity in name of American critical realism and the movement of the same name begun by Roy Bhaskar. The figure of Maurice Mandelbaum complicates the relationship, not only due to his career bridging the two movements but also Mandelbaum’s concern not only with traditional concerns of American critical realism (epistemology and philosophy of science) but the nature... Read more

1. Answering the Destructive Gestalt of the Twentieth Century’s Intellectual Crisis  2. Mandelbaum’s Critical Realism  3. Mandelbaum’s ‘Noble Dream:’ Historical Objectivism through a Century of Debate  4. Insularity or Continuity? Phenomenology and Critical Realism  5. Mandelbaum on Moral Phenomenology and Moral Realism  6. Societal Facts and Laws after Fifty Years  7. After Mandelbaum: from Societal Facts to Emergent Properties  8. Bibliography of the Writings of Maurice Mandelbaum

Biography

Ian F. Verstegen is an independent scholar living in Philadelphia. Trained in art history, he is an authority on early modern Italian art, especially the painter Federico Barocci, and his interests and publications extend to psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy.

"Verstegen’s book has for me changed a rather obscure, pedantic character into an interesting philosopher of history, with human faults and foibles, caused and conditioned by the past, struggling against the oppressive thought systems of his time." Journal of Critical Realism