Dreams in exile rediscovering science and ethics in nineteenth-century social theory / [electronic resource] :
George E. McCarthy
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009
- 1 online resource (ix, 374 p.)
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-359) and index
Introduction: conversing with traditions : ancients and moderns in nineteenth-century practical science -- Aristotle on the constitution of social justice and classical democracy -- Aristotle and classical social theory : social justice and moral economy in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Kant on the critique of reason and science -- Kant and classical social theory : epistemology, logic, and methods in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Conclusion: dreams of classical reason : historical science between existentialism and antiquity