1st Edition
Individualism in Modern Thought From Adam Smith to Hayek
By Lorenzo Infantino
Copyright 1998
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a comprehensive survey of methodological individualism in social, political and economic thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Exploring the works of such figures as de Mandeville, Smith, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this study underlines the contrasts between methodological collectivism and methodological individualism. The detailed... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Bernard De Mandeville and Adam Smith; Chapter 3 Which Method?; Chapter 4 Durkheim and the Application of the Collectivistic Method; Chapter 5 Is an ‘Individualistic’ Reading of Durkheim Possible?; Chapter 6 Economists and Sociologists Compared; Chapter 7 The Early Parsons; Chapter 8 Conclusions;
Biography
Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Sociology at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome.
