Human Sciences And Human Interests

Author : Mikael Klintman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317484189

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Human Sciences and Human Interests by Mikael Klintman Pdf

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 interests. Mikael Klintman draws the reader to the core of human sciences - how they conceive human interests, as well as how interests embedded within each discipline relate to its claims and recommendations. Moreover, by comparing theories as well as concrete examples of research on health and environment through the lenses of social, economic and evolutionary sciences, Klintman outlines an integrative framework for how human interests could be better analysed across all human sciences. This fast-paced and modern contribution to the field is a necessary tool for developing any human scientist’s ability to address multidimensional problems within a rapidly changing society. Avoiding dogmatic reasoning, this interdisciplinary text offers new insights and will be especially relevant to scholars and advanced students within the aforementioned disciplines, as well as those within the fields of social work, social policy, political science and other neighbouring disciplines.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : Boston : Beacon Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UVA:X000027111

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Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

Author : Jens Hoyrup
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791446034

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Human Sciences by Jens Hoyrup Pdf

Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804718113

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Human Interests by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical study of the conditions of human existence and the issues that confront people in the conduct of their everyday lives. This book surveys, from a contemplative, philosophical point of view, a wide variety of human-interest issues, including happiness, luck, aging, the meaning of life, optimism and pessimism, morality, and faith and belief. The author's deliberations blend historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives into philosophical appreciation of the human condition. The philosophers of Greek antiquity took philosophy to center around just this issue of intelligent living - of determining the nature of life under the guidance of reason. Such a perspective puts philosophical agenda - a position it contested with the philosophy of nature throughout classical antiquity. In more recent times, however, its prominence has declined - no doubt, the author suggests, because modern man's achievements have been more notable in the natural than in the human science.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Calvin O. Schrag
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400969759

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Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Calvin O. Schrag Pdf

The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy, by the president of the Institute, Dr Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, this particular society is devoted to an exploration of the relevance of phenomenological methods and insights for an understanding of the origins and goals of the specialised human sciences. The essays printed in the first part of the book were originally presented at the Second Congress of this society held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 12-14 July 1979. The second part of the volume consists of selected essays from the third convention (the Eleventh International Congress of Phenomenology of the World Phenomen ology Institute) held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981. With the third part of this book we pass into the "Human Rights" issue as treated by the World Phenomenology Institute at the Interamerican Philosophy Congress held in Tallahassee, Florida, also in 1981. The volume opens with a mono graph by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka on the foundations of ethics in the moral practice within the life-world and the social world shown as clearly distinct. The main ideas of this work had been presented by Tymieniecka as lead lectures to the three conferences giving them a tight research-project con sistency.

Author : William David Du Bois,R. Dean Wright
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739117718

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Politics in the Human Interest by William David Du Bois,R. Dean Wright Pdf

Politics in the Human Interest presents the striking proposition that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest. Du Bois and Wright, editors of Applying Sociology: Making a Better World, seek a synthesis of the disciplines by returning to the bold conversation of August Comte, Lester Ward, Robert Lynd, Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow, Alvin Gouldner, Ernest Becker and Alfred McClung Lee. As economist Kenneth Boulding once said, "The question for the social sciences is simply, what is better--and how do we get there?" Politics in the Human Interest provides an important foundation for the answer and explores the theoretical foundation of a humanistic sociology. It returns to the original progressive agenda--that knowledge about human behavior can be used to create social progress and a better world. Politics in the Human Interest is perfect for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate courses as well as sociology professionals.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107144972

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Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

John B. Thompson's collection of translated essays forms an illuminating introduction to Paul Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory.

Author : Richard Wightman Fox,Robert B. Westbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521628873

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In Face of the Facts by Richard Wightman Fox,Robert B. Westbrook Pdf

Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays by scholars in philosophy, political theory, psychology, history, literary studies, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and legal studies affords a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, and it offers fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship. Seeking neither to reduce values to facts nor facts to values, these essays aim to foster discussion about inquiry and moral judgment, and demonstrate that moral inquiry need not be either dispassionate and value-free or moralistic and preachy.

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405137447

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Continental Philosophy of Science by Gary Gutting Pdf

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guideto the major twentieth-century French and German philosophicalthinking on science. A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unifiedinterpretative survey of continental work on philosophy ofscience. Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-sourceselections. Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard,and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel andCassirer. Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, RichardTieszen, Michael Friedman, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles,Hans-Jöerg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Axel Honneth,and Penelope Deutscher.

Author : Paul J. Silvia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199722072

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Exploring the Psychology of Interest by Paul J. Silvia Pdf

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.

Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438459578

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Power by Raymond Angelo Belliotti Pdf

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present. Frequently understood in simplistic and often highly negative terms, the concept of power has proven to be both uncommonly intriguing and maddeningly elusive. In Power, Raymond Angelo Belliotti begins by fashioning a general definition of power that is refined enough to capture the numerous types of power in all their multifaceted complexity. He then proceeds in a series of discrete yet thematically connected meditations to explore the meaning of power in ancient, modern, and contemporary thought. In grappling with the critical questions surrounding the accumulation, distribution, and exercise of personal and social power, this work allows us to confront fundamental questions of who we are and how we might live better lives. Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is the author of many books, including Machiavelli’s Secret: The Soul of the Statesman, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Helen MacGill Hughes
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780878557295

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News and the Human Interest Story by Helen MacGill Hughes Pdf

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information to create the substance and demand for a popular press. In describing the rise and fall of newspaper empires, each with their special readership attractions, Dr. Hughes shows how technological innovation and idiosyncratic creativity were used by owners to capture and hold a reading audience. Once this audience developed, it could be fed a variety of messages--beamed at reinforcing and maintaining both general and specific publics--as well as a view of the world consonant with that of the publisher and major advertisers. Hughes offers a persuasive argument for the continuing viability of this method for combined social control, instruction, and amusement captured by the association of news and the human interest story.

Author : Eugenie A. Samier,with Adam G. Stanley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135897987

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Political Approaches to Educational Administration and Leadership by Eugenie A. Samier,with Adam G. Stanley Pdf

This collection explores the political philosophy and theory foundations for educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. The first section, "Political Philosophy: The Foundations," discusses the work of such writers as Machiavelli, Kant and Hegel, Hayek, Habermas, and Bourdieu as their theories apply to the educational context. The second section, "Political Analysis: The Critique," examines various types of political analyses, such as the politics of the policy process, minority politics, civil society, micro-politics, community politics, and cosmopolitan theory. The last section, "Current Political Controversies: The Practice," addresses current topical issues of a political nature, including the serving of the state economic agenda, the democratisation of educational organisations, the neo-conservative agenda, and globalisation. The broad international perspective from which these topics are covered makes this volume an excellent addition to the fields of educational leadership, organizational studies, and educational administration theory.

Author : D. Jacob
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137452573

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Justice and Foreign Rule by D. Jacob Pdf

Can foreign rule be morally justified? Since the end of the First World War, international transitional administrations have replaced dysfunctional states to create the conditions for lasting peace and democracy. In response to extreme state failure, the author argues, this form of foreign rule is not only justified, but a requirement of justice.

Author : Rudolf A. Makkreel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226249452

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Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics by Rudolf A. Makkreel Pdf

This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A. Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation in which judgment plays a central role. Moving beyond the dialogical approaches found in much of contemporary hermeneutics, he focuses instead on the diagnostic use of reflective judgment, not only to discern the differentiating features of the phenomena to be understood, but also to orient us to the various meaning contexts that can frame their interpretation. Makkreel develops overlooked resources of Kant’s transcendental thought in order to reconceive hermeneutics as a critical inquiry into the appropriate contextual conditions of understanding and interpretation. He shows that a crucial task of hermeneutical critique is to establish priorities among the contexts that may be brought to bear on the interpretation of history and culture. The final chapter turns to the contemporary art scene and explores how orientational contexts can be reconfigured to respond to the ways in which media of communication are being transformed by digital technology. Altogether, Makkreel offers a promising way of thinking about the shifting contexts that we bring to bear on interpretations of all kinds, whether of texts, art works, or the world.