Science for humanism
Subtitle: the recovery of human agency
By: Charles R. Varela.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780415485203; 9780415481823; 9780203882276
Subjects: Humanism; Agent (Philosophy)
Table of contents: title: Part I: Science for humanism; title: Historical context : humanism and Giddens's call; title: Theoretical framework : postmodernism and after; title: Kant and the stalemate of the social sciences : prelude and transformation; title: Kant and the stalemate of the psychological sciences : behavior and energy; title: Part II: Returning to Kant and the stalemate of sociology; title: Simme l: sociation and the real a priori of power; title: Durkheim : the social fact as a new third antinomy; title: Weber : the noumenal freedom of the historical actor; title: Parsons, Dahrendorf, Berger : rituals of return; title: Returning to Kant and to Giddens call; title: The dynamical theory of matter : natural agency; title: Kantian realism : human agency.