Rickert's Relevance: The Ontological Nature and Epistemological Functions of Values - Hardcover

Zijderveld

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004151737 ISBN 13: 9789004151734

Publisher: Brill, 2006

Synopsis

In the wake of the renewed interest in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the neo-Kantian theories of Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) are increasingly drawing attention. This monograph is an attempt to rescue Rickert from an undeserved oblivion by an analysis of his systematic philosophy of values. The author discusses Rickert's epistemology and ontology which lay the foundation for a methodology of the Natural Sciences and the Humanities. In Rickert's view these types of science are not in opposition to each other but operate on a continuum between two extremes: a 'generalizing' (natural-scientific) and an 'individualizing' (cultural-scientific) approach to reality. The social sciences in particular operate on this continuum in a flexible manner, sometimes close to the natural-scientific pole as in the case of experimental psychology or econometrics, sometimes close to the cultural-scientific approach, as in the case of cultural sociology or cultural history. Thus there is in Rickert's logic of science no room for any methodological quarrel.

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Anton C. Zijderveld was born in 1937 in Malang (Indonesia), studied religion and sociology in the Netherlands and the USA, received a Ph.D. in Sociology at Leiden University in 1966, and his second Ph.D. in Philosophy at Erasmus University in 2006. He taught sociology in New York, Montreal, Tilburg and Rotterdam. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam since 2002 and has been Visiting Professor at Montreal (1977-78), Osaka (1988) and Munich (1988-89).
Zijderveld published 17 books in Dutch and English (translations in English, Dutch, Turkish, German and Japanese), among which The Abstract Society (Doubleday, 1970). His latest publication is The Institutional Imperative (Amsterdam University Press, 2001). Zijderveld has been a contributor to Het Financieele Dagblad, the Dutch equivalent of The Financial Times since 1990. His current projects include research on Rickert and a cultural-sociological analysis of the cases of Roman Law as described in Justinian's Codex Iuris Civilis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004151737
• ISBN 13: 9789004151734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370