Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory

Mandelbaum, Maurice

ISBN 10: 0801834708 / ISBN 13: 9780801834707

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., 1968

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19787

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1968
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0801834708
• ISBN-13: 9780801834707
• Einband: Hard Cover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Philosophy & Religion

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Inhaltsangabe

Originally published in 1987. Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the character of institutions in terms of their individual purposes, whereas others have stressed relationships of necessity among society's institutions. Mandelbaum discusses chance, choice, and necessity at length and reaches some provocative conclusions about the ways in which they are interwoven in human affairs.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maurice Mandelbaum was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Dartmouth College. His work focused on phenomenology, epistemology, and intellectual history.