346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the current atmosphere of controversy about modes of interpreting literature, historical influences in science, and subtle ideologies in social theory, Abraham Edel confronts the institutionalized separation of the humanities and the sciences, the segregation of disciplines through structures that rest on entrenched dualisms, and the isolations reenforced by habits of the academy and its... Read more
1. Comparative Modes of Inquiry: The Sciences and the Humanities, 2. Theory and Practice: An Unsteady Dichotomy, 3. Is the Individual-Social a Misleading Dichotomy?, 4. Elitism and Culture, 5. Legal Positivism: A Pragmatic Reanalysis, 6. Analytic Philosophy of Education at the Crossroads, 7. Anthropology and Ethics in Common Focus, 8. The Confrontation of Anthropology and Ethics, 9. Ethics—a Modest Science? 10. Ethical Theory in Twentieth-Century America, 11. Form: The Philosophic Idea and Some of Its Problems, 12. Biography among the Disciplines, 13. What Place for Philosophy in Contemporary Thought? 14. The Humanities and the State Councils: Retooling in the 1980s, 15. The Professors and the Grass Roots, 16. The Good Citizen, the Good Person, and the Good Society, 17. The Humanities and Public Policy: A Philosophical Perspective.
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Abraham Edel
