The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value / Edition 1

by Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813101415
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	12/31/1973
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1640L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Will greatly help social scientists to understand better the impact of scientific naturalism on the social sciences.

Political Theory

Brilliant.

Key Reporter

Fills a major gap for mature students of American thought and political theory.

Choice

Embodies the broad scope and balanced judgment to make it henceforth one of the standard historical syntheses of American ideas and to establish its author as a leading intellectual historian.

Journal of Southern History

[L]ucid, informative, perceptive, and commendably fair-minded.

Journal of American History

"Fills a major gap for mature students of American thought and political theory." — Choice

"Embodies the broad scope and balanced judgment to make it henceforth one of the standard historical syntheses of American ideas and to establish its author as a leading intellectual historian." — Journal of Southern History

"Brilliant." — Key Reporter

"Will greatly help social scientists to understand better the impact of scientific naturalism on the social sciences." — Political Theory

"[L]ucid, informative, perceptive, and commendably fair-minded." — Journal of American History

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