Sociology as a skin trade;: Essays towards a reflexive sociology (Harper torchbooks, TB 1733)

O′Neill, John

Harper-Torchbooks

A collection of 19 multidisciplinary essays concerned with the intellectual tradition of the social sciences as well as their formal and methodological properties. The arguments focus on the nature of concept formation and the logic of explanation in the social sciences.

Modes of Individualism and Collectivism

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

St.Martin's Press

The Night of the Gods; Volume 1

Religion & Spirituality

Franklin Classics

The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry Into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism; Volume 1

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For the Enlightenment, science represented an ideal of rational argument, behaviour and community against which could be judged the arbitrary power and authority of other spheres of human practice. This Enlightenment ideal runs through much liberal and socialist theory. However, the Enlightenment picture of science has appeared to many to be increasingly uncompelling. What explains the apparent decline of the Enlightenment vision?This book explores one neglected answer originally proposed by Husserl, that its decline is rooted in formalism, in the view that all there is to theoretical science is the construction and mastery of formal systems. O'Neill demonstrates formalist accounts of mathematics and natural science to be inadequate, and then considers and rejects Husserl's views on the origin of the formalization of the sciences. The book concludes by arguing that the rise of a formalist view of the sciences is founded in the professionalization of modern science, and discusses the significance of this professionalization for the fate of the Enlightenment view of science.Worlds Without Content: Against Formalism tackles an important set of issues which have been neglected in recent philosophy of science, and in so doing highlights themes in Husserl's later works which have been ignored by most commentators. It will be of particular interest for philosophers of mathematics, science and social theory, and for historians of mathematics and philosophy.

Worlds Without Content: Against Formalism

Literature & Fiction

Routledge

Revealing flaws in both 'green' and market-based approaches to environmental policy, O'Neill develops an Aristotolian account of well-being. He examines the implications for wider issues involving markets, civil society an

Ecology, Policy and Politics (Environmental Philosophies)

Business & Money

Economics

The Market (Economics as Social Theory)

Following the failure of 'really existing socialism' in Eastern Europe and Asia, the market is now generally perceived, by Left and Right, to be supreme in any rational economic system. The current debate now focuses on the proper boundaries of markets rather than the system itself. This book examines the problems of defining these boundaries for the recent defences of the market, and shows that they highlight major weaknesses in the cases made by its proponents.The author draws on considerable research in this area to provide an overdue critical evaluation of the limits of the market, and future prospects for non-market socialism. The issues discussed cross a number of academic boundaries including economics, philosophy and politics.

The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics (Economics as Social Theory)

Business Culture

The Poverty of Postmodernism rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism. This is on the grounds that it renders critical reason and commonsense incapable of resisting the superifical ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalyzed. In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau Ponty, Schutz, Winch), he challenges Lyotard's postrationalist reading of Wittgenstein and Habermas in order to defend commonsense reason and values that are constitutive of the everyday life-world. In addition he argues from the standpoint of Vico and Marx on the civil history of embodied mind that the post-rationalist celebration of the arts of superificiality undermines the recognition of the cultural debt each generation owes to past and post-generations. In a positive way O'Neill develops an account of the historical vocation of reason and of the charitable accountability of science to commonsense that is necessary to sustain the basic institutions of civic democracy.

The Poverty of Postmodernism (Social Futures)

History & Criticism

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Sociology as a skin trade;: Essays towards a reflexive sociology (Harper torchbooks, TB 1733)

Modes of Individualism and Collectivism

The Night of the Gods; Volume 1

The Night of the Gods; Volume 1

The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry Into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism; Volume 1

The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry Into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism; Volume 1

Worlds Without Content: Against Formalism

Ecology, Policy and Politics (Environmental Philosophies)

The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics (Economics as Social Theory)

The Poverty of Postmodernism (Social Futures)