Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation / Edition 1

by D. Rubinstein

Overview

First published in 2005. This book has two primary objectives. The first is to show that there are substantial parallels between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein, and the second is to apply a synthesis of these two thinkers to a variety of philosophical and theoretical disputes over the character of the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415382809
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/13/2005
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

D. Rubinstein Department of Sociology University of lllinois, Chicago Circle

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 The problem of a social science; Chapter 2 Objectivism in social science; Chapter 3 Subjectivism in social science; Chapter 4; Conclusion to Part I; Part 2 II; Chapter 5 Mind and body; Chapter 6 Mind and action; Chapter 7 Philosophical analysis and understanding ideas; Chapter 8 Explaining action; Chapter 9 The social self; Chapter 10 The epistemology of Marx and Wittgenstein; Chapter 11; Conclusion;