Modernity's Wager
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780691050614
Subjects: Social Science; Self; Phenomenology; Social Control; Transcendence (Philosophy); Philosophy; Sociology - General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Anthropology; Philosophy / Political; Political Philosophy; Political science & theory; Religion; Religion: general; Sociology; Metaphysics; Political; Authority
First sentence: ONE OF THE more intractable problems in the social sciences is the problem of explaining human agency, or what is often termed the structure/action debate.