Magisterial Imagination: Six Masters of the Human Science - Hardcover

Lerner, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560001682 ISBN 13: 9781560001683

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

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This work brings together Max Lemer's extended and enduring essays on Aristotle, Niccolb Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Thorstein Veblen, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Combining biography and interpretation, Lerner insightfully examines a cluster of thinkers who helped shape his own influential work in political theory and civilizational analysis. Viewed collectively, these essays show Turner's method and mind at their best.

Like Lerner himself, the "masters" were tough-minded realists―philosophers who saw human experience in all of its variety as central to study. Less inclined to metaphysical speculation, they wrestled with the real concerns and circumstances of therr times―but always within the larger context of ultimate meaning and consequence. Lerner eloquently introduces each philosopher and his work, but he also provides his own criticism and commentary. Complicated subjects are clearly presented, and cross-disciplinary analysis enhances the reader's sense of the whole.

In his introduction, Robert Schmuhl discusses why Lerner was attracted to these particular thinkers and how they refined his approach to the human sciences. Schmuhl also traces the influence of these figures on Lemer's work. Magisterial Imagination will be of importance to philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists.

Biografía del autor

Max Lerner (1902-1992) was distinguished professor at the Graduate School of Human Behavior, United States International University at San Diego. He was also a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicateand the New York Post.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1560001682
• ISBN 13: 9781560001683
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240