352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and cultural worlds of deterministic structures; it is this version of the freedom and determinism issue which centres the Science and Humanism debates, and thus marks the history of the social sciences.... Read more
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Science for Humanism 1. Historical context: Humanism and Giddens’s Call 2. Theoretical framework: Postmodernism and After 3. Kant and the Stalemate of the Social Sciences: Prelude and Transformation 4. Kant and the Stalemate of the Psychological Sciences: Behavior and Energy Part II: Returning to Kant and the Stalemate of Sociology 5. Simmel: Sociation and the Real Apriori of Power 6. Durkheim: The Social Fact as a New Third Antinomy 7. Weber: The Noumenal Freedom of the Historical Actor 8. Parsons, Dahrendorf, Berger: Rituals of Return Part III: Returning to Kant and Answering Giddens’ Call 9. The Dynamical Theory of Matter: Natural Agency 10. Kantian Realism: Human Agency
Biography
Charles R. Varela was a professor of psychology and sociology for 37 years at Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey. He is engaged in writing papers and books for the scholarly community and is electively involved in graduate seminars on social and anthropological theory.
