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Schools of Thought Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.) : 2 tables, 3 line illus.
- Place of Publication:
- NEW JERSEY : Princeton University Press, 2001
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays stems from a 1997 conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. Essays focus on disciplinary and methodology changes, institutional history, and the link between poltical philosophy and world governance.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. School Building
- PART ONE Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices
- CHAPTER 1 Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project
- CHAPTER 2 Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change
- CHAPTER 3 Economic History as a Cure for Economics
- CHAPTER 4 Can the "Other" of Philosophy Speak?
- CHAPTER 5 Reflections on Interdisciplinarity
- PART TWO The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions
- CHAPTER 6 After History?
- CHAPTER 7 The Global Situation
- CHAPTER 8 Modernity and Identity
- CHAPTER 9 The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy
- CHAPTER 10 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization
- CHAPTER 11 Science as Alchemy
- PART THREE Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History
- CHAPTER 12 Whatever Happened to the "Social" in Social History?
- CHAPTER 13 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial Critique
- CHAPTER 14 Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science
- CHAPTER 15 Interdisciplinarity at New York University
- PART FOUR The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance
- CHAPTER 16 Political Theory and Moral Responsibility
- CHAPTER 17 A "Moral Core" Solution to the Prisoners' Dilemma
- CHAPTER 18 Reinterpreting Risk
- CHAPTER 19 Retrotopia: Critical Reason Turns Primitive
- CHAPTER 20 International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do?
- AUTHOR NOTES
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691088426
- 069108842X
- 9780691228389
- 0691228388
- OCLC:
- 1200553497
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