Author: Hazelrigg, Lawrence
Title: Social Science And The Challenge Of Relativism Volume 1 - A Wilderness Of Mirrors - On Practices Of Theory In A Grey Age
Description: Florida State University Press, 1989, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+520pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0813008735 ¶ Epistemological relativism and the idea of a science of society are deeply impalcated in the crisis of modernity. This is a detailed study of the faliures of Social Theory to respond to the problem of Relativism. In this first volume the author critiques the Epistemological arguemnts of philosophers of the modern era such as Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Hesserl, Dewey, Russell, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, before analyzing the rhetorical structures of 20th century social theorists.

Keywords: ISBN 0813008735, social science, relativity, philosophy 0813008735