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A Humanist Science

Hardcover • 2008 • English

A Humanist Science

By Philip Selznick

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About the book

Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and argues that human values belong to the world of fact and are the source of the ideals that govern social and political institutions. By demonstrating the close connection between the social sciences and the humanities, Selznick reveals how the metho...Show more

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ISBN

9780804758628

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

A Humanist Science

Format

Hardcover

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