1st Edition

Conjectures and Confrontations Science, Evolution, Social Concern

By Peggy Wireman, Robin Fox Copyright 1997
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This is the third in the series of volumes of essays that Robin Fox began with Reproduction and Succession and continued with The Challenge of Anthropology . Fox who has been described as "the conscience of anthropology" continues to have the same aim: to expose readers in the social sciences and beyond to the consequences of "the biosocial orientation," and to assess the "state of the art" in... Read more
Introduction: The Biosocial Orientation, Interview: An Accidental Life I 1. Why Bureaucracy Fails 2. Nationalism: Hymns Ancient and Modem 3. Moral Sense and Utopian Sensibility 6. Left Ideology and Right Archaeology 7. Self-Interest and Social Concern 8. Scientific Humanism and Humanistic Science, Interview: An Accidental Life II, Epilogue: What the Shaman Saw

Biography

Fox, Robin