Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Softcover

Fay, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138996289 ISBN 13: 9781138996281

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life. The book has the special merit of being a good overview of the principal current ideas about the relation between social theory and political practice, as well as an attempt at providing a new and more satisfactory account of this relationship. To accomplish this task, it synthesises work from the analytic philosophy of social science with that of the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt school.

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About the Author:

Brian Fay is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. His publication include Social Theory and "Political Practice" (1975) and "Critical Social Science "(1987). He is Executive Editor of the Journal "History and Theory."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138996289
• ISBN 13: 9781138996281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124