Crisis of Democratic Theory Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value

Name: Crisis of Democratic Theory Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value
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ISBN: 9780813101415

ISBN-10: 0813101417

ISBN-13: 9780813101415

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Edward A. Purcell

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"Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory."

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 12/31/1973
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



The Problems of Democratic Theory



Scientific Naturalism in American Thought



The Undermining of Democratic Theory



Naturalism & Objectivism in the Social Sciences



Methodology & Morals



Non-Euclideanism: Logic & Metaphor



The Rise of Legal Realism



The New Study of Politics



The Crisis of Democratic Theory



America & the Rise of European Dictatorships



Counterattack



Crisis in Jurisprudence



Crisis in Social Science



Toward a Relativist Theory of Democracy



Theoretical Principles & Foreign Policy



The Resolution of Democratic Theory



Relativist Democratic Theory & Postwar America



America as a Normative Concept


Notes


A Note on Sources


Index