Realism And Individualism

Author : Mateusz W. Oleksy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027269010

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Realism and Individualism by Mateusz W. Oleksy Pdf

Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholastic Realism without questioning its basic assumptions. The book presents a critical overview of Peirce’s views on modern nominalism and offers a novel approach to the social-anthropological underpinnings of his realism, especially Pragmatic Realism vis à vis the individualist tendencies in modern thought. The book is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, especially students of American pragmatism, anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, as well as to anyone interested in Charles S. Peirce, Duns Scotus, Ockham, and generally to semioticians, social scientists, and sociologists.

Author : Gang Liu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : WISC:89031814395

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Individualism and Realism by Gang Liu Pdf

Author : Mark Quentin Gardiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802047718

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Semantic Challenges to Realism by Mark Quentin Gardiner Pdf

Although many philosophers espouse anti-realism, the only sustained arguments for the position are due to Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. Gardiner's unpretentious style and lucid organization make sense of Dummett's and Putnam's discourse.

Author : Steve Fleetwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134645374

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Critical Realism in Economics by Steve Fleetwood Pdf

This volume extends its insights into the fields of economic philosophy, methodology and theory in such a way as to open up new forms of investigation in economics and transform the nature of economic reasoning.

Author : Nathalie Bulle,Francesco Di Iorio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031415081

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The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism by Nathalie Bulle,Francesco Di Iorio Pdf

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world’s leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.

Author : Lorenzo Infantino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317798316

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Individualism in Modern Thought by Lorenzo Infantino Pdf

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 analysis offered here also reveals the theoretical presuppositions behind the collectivist and individualist traditions and the practical consequences of their applications. Infantino concludes in favour of individualism.

Author : Zubin Meer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739122648

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Individualism by Zubin Meer Pdf

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkablytenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction overand against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held atPrinceton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.

Author : Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136287251

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Critical Realism by Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie Pdf

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Author : Margaret Scotford Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521484421

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Realist Social Theory by Margaret Scotford Archer Pdf

Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and agency, Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common practice - whether in upwards conflation (by the aggregation of individual acts) downwards conflation (through the structural orchestration of agents), or, more recently, in central conflation which holds the two to be mutually constitutive and thus precludes any examination of their interplay by eliding them. Realist social theory: the morphogenetic approach thus not only rejects methodological individualism and collectivism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one between elisionary theorizing (such as Giddens' structuration theory) and the emergentist theories based on a realist ontology of the social world. The morphogenetic approach is the sociological complement of transcendental realism, and together they provide a basis for non-conflationary theorizing which is also of direct utility to the practising social analyst.

Author : Nestor Miguez,Joerg Rieger,Jung Mo Sung
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334043225

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Beyond the Spirit of Empire by Nestor Miguez,Joerg Rieger,Jung Mo Sung Pdf

How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? This title analyzes the global empire in its political and economic dimensions, in its symbolic constructions of power, and in its general assumptions often taken for granted.

Author : Seungbae Park
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030878139

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Embracing Scientific Realism by Seungbae Park Pdf

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to provide influential formulations of scientific realism and antirealism. Finally, they will see how scientific realism relates to scientific progress, scientific understanding, mathematical realism, and scientific practice.

Author : William A. Jackson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849802116

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Economics, Culture and Social Theory by William A. Jackson Pdf

. . . the book is excellent in setting out and explaining a fundamental critique of economics one moreover that has been missed by most other current critics of the field. Making this case is an achievement. Hopefully, it will have a greater impact than its author probably expects. Journal of Cultural Economics Economics evolved by perfecting the taking of culture out of its reductionist and virtual world. But culture has recently been reintroduced, both as a sphere of application for an otherwise unchanging methodology and as a weak form of acknowledging that the economic alone is inadequate as the basis even for explaining the economy. This volume is an essential critical starting point for understanding the changing relationship between economics and culture and in offering a more satisfactory and stable union between the two. Ben Fine, University of London, UK Economics, Culture and Social Theory examines how culture has been neglected in economic theorising and considers how economics could benefit by incorporating ideas from social and cultural theory. Orthodox economics has prompted a long line of cultural criticism that goes back to the origins of economic theory and extends to recent debates surrounding postmodernism. William A. Jackson discusses the cultural critique of economics, identifies the main arguments, and assesses their implications. Among the topics covered are relativism and realism, idealism and materialism, agency and structure, hermeneutics, semiotics, and cultural evolution. Drawing from varied literatures, notably social and cultural theory, the book stresses the importance of culture for economic behaviour and looks at the prospects for a renewed and culturally informed economics. The book will be invaluable to heterodox economists and to anyone interested in the links between culture and the economy. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, arguing against the isolation of economics, and will therefore hold wide appeal for social scientists working in related fields, as well as for economists specialising in cultural economics and economic methodology.

Author : Luke Smythe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000625219

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Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany by Luke Smythe Pdf

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.

Author : Pamela Ugwudike
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447309420

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An Introduction to Critical Criminology by Pamela Ugwudike Pdf

The first book on critical criminology theories and perspectives for students of criminology, sociology, and social policy, this book offers an in-depth but accessible introduction to foundational and contemporary ideas in the field. Using examples, highlighting key points, and offering sample essay questions, Pamela Ugwudike presents students with a vast array of theories and perspectives, including many that challenge mainstream criminological notions about the causes of crime and the operation of the criminal justice system. Aiming not only to familiarize students with these concepts but also to encourage them to develop critical thinking,An Introduction to Critical Criminology will be an ideal text for criminology courses.

Author : Jesús Benito,Ana María Manzanas,Begoña Simal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042026018

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Uncertain Mirrors by Jesús Benito,Ana María Manzanas,Begoña Simal Pdf

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term “mimesis” as both a “world-reflecting” and a “world-creating” mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different “location of culture” and “direction of culture;” they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.