The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences — ed. Quentin Skinner
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'The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences', edited by Quentin Skinner, is a collection of essays examining influential thinkers and intellectual movements that reshaped modern social and political thought. Published by Cambridge University Press in 1985, the volume explores the ideas of figures including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Kuhn, John Rawls and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Its contributors explain the significance of these thinkers and their challenges to established empiricist and positivist approaches to understanding human society. An important introduction to twentieth-century intellectual history, the book will interest readers of philosophy, sociology, political theory and the history of ideas.
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Filed under: Philosophy