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Human Sciences and Human Interests: Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences book cover

1st Edition

Human Sciences and Human Interests Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences

By Mikael Klintman Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what scholars in the different human sciences assume, imply or explicitly claim with regard to human... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Manifest and Latent Interests

1. Dual systems in the human sciences

2. The Apollonian dimension

3. The Dionysian dimension

Part II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests

4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem

5. The blank slate and its critics

6. Understanding the prepared slate

Part III: Interests, Continuity and Change

7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change

8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change

9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and change

Conclusions

References

Biography

Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman’s previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).

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