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Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook

Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook Hardcover - 2001

by Levin, Yuval

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New York: University Press of America, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xxiv, 312pp. Very mild shelf wear to paper over boards with bumps to bottom corners and to tail of spine. Sticker to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The astonishing success of the natural sciences in the modern era has led many thinkers to assume that similar feats of knowledge and power should be achievable in human affairs. That assumption, and the accompanying notion that the methods of modern science ought to be applied to social and political questions, have been at the heart of a number of prominent philosophical schools in the modern age, and much of the politics of the past century. Is the application of scientific logic to the study of human affairs philosophically defensible? Does it aid or hinder our efforts at a genuine understanding of the human world? Why have so many modern ideologies, including those responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century, advanced themselves under the banner of science? Why, in other words, do we assume that modern science holds the key to an understanding of human affairs? Are we right to make this assumption? And what does the assumption mean for contemporary society and politics? Tyranny of Reason, which is designed for the interested lay reader and for undergraduate or beginning graduate students in the social sciences, attempts to answer these important questions in the context of the history of philosophy.(Publisher).
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  • Title Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook
  • Author Levin, Yuval
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Published in 200
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of America, New York
  • Date 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 14618
  • ISBN 9780761818724 / 0761818723
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.9 x 0.93 in (21.54 x 14.99 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social sciences - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00048015
  • Dewey Decimal Code 300.1

About the author

Yuval Levin is an Associate Director at The Center for the Study of Technology and Society in Washington, D.C.

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