Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn Tapa dura - 2012

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 314pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific standards and supporters of a more humanistic, interpretive approach has been fought to a stalemate. Joel Isaac seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into much-needed historical relief. In Working Knowledge he explores how influential thinkers in the twentieth century's middle decades understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. For a number of these thinkers, questions about what kinds of knowledge the human sciences could produce did not rest on grand ideological… Leer más

Harvard University Press, 2012. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780674065741

Harvard Univ Pr, 2012. Hardcover. New. 296 pages. 9.30x6.20x1.20 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.