Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1st Edition
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Full Title

Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winch\'s Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1st Edition
Author(s)

Berel Dov Lerner
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9781136404924, 9780415758529, 9780415253024, 9781315012797, 9781136404993, 9781136404856
Publisher

Routledge
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch’s writings on the philosophy of the social sciences. The author points to Winch’s tendency to over-emphasize the importance of language and communication, and his insufficient attention to the role of practical, technological activites in human life and society.It also offers an appendix devoted to the controversy between the anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere regarding Captain James Cook’s Hawaiian adventures.Essential reading for those studying the development of philosophy in the twentieth century, this book will also be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of religion, and all those with an interest in the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.