The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (Canto)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780521398336
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Sociology; Political Science; History Of Social Sciences; Philosophy Of Social Science; Social scientists; Politics/International Relations; Social sciences; History & Theory - General; Methodology; Sociology - Social Theory; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science-Sociology - Social Theory; Social sciences Social sciences; 20th century; Philosophy; Social history
First sentence: The 'grand theorists' discussed in this book are all very different from one another, yet most of them agree in attaching enormous importance to the idea of frameworks which give meaning and significance to individual phenomena: Kuhn's paradigms or disciplinary matrices, Althusser's problematiques, Foucault's discourses, epistemes, and 'regimes'.