Maurice Mandelbaum and American Critical Realism

ISBN-13: 9781138797918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 174 str.

Ian F. Verstegen;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This is a unique and timely assessment of the work of American critical realist Maurice Mandelbaum, and the relation of his thought to contemporary critical realism. Particular attention is paid to how his theories relate to those of Roy Bhaskar.

Spis treści

1. Answering the Destructive Gestalt of the Twentieth Century’s Intellectual Crisis  2. Mandelbaum’s Critical Realism  3. Mandelbaum’s ‘Noble Dream:’ Historical Objectivism through a Century of Debate  4. Insularity or Continuity? Phenomenology and Critical Realism  5. Mandelbaum on Moral Phenomenology and Moral Realism  6. Societal Facts and Laws after Fifty Years  7. After Mandelbaum: from Societal Facts to Emergent Properties  8. Bibliography of the Writings of Maurice Mandelbaum

O autorze

Ian F. Verstegen is an independent scholar living in Philadelphia. Trained in art history, he is an authority on early modern Italian art, especially the painter Federico Barocci, and his interests and publications extend to psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy.