The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of ValueUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M04 23 - 344 pages Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory. |
Contents
The Rise of Legal Realism | |
The New Study of Politics | |
America the Rise of European Dictatorships | |
Counterattack | |
Crisis in Jurisprudence | |
Crisis in Social Science | |
Toward a Relativist Theory of Democracy | |
Theoretical Principles Foreign Policy | |
Relativist Democratic Theory Postwar America | |
America as a Normative Concept | |
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