Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory

by McCarthy, George E.

• ISBN13: 9781438425887
• ISBN10: 1438425880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The classical origins of nineteenth-century social theory are illuminated in this sequel to the award-winning Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece. George E. McCarthy stresses the importance of Aristotle and Kant in the creation of a new type of social science in the nineteenth century that represented a critical reaction to Enlightenment rationality and modern liberalism. The seminal social theorists Marx, Durkheim, and Weber integrated Aristotle’s theory of moral economy and practical wisdom (phronesis) with Kant’s theory of knowledge and moral autonomy. The resulting social theories, uniquely supported by a view of practical science that wove together science and ethics, proved instrumental to the development of modern sociology and anthropology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Conversing with Traditions: Ancients and Moderns in Nineteenth-Century Practical Science
Aristotle on the Constitution of Social Justice and Classical Democracy	p. 19
Happiness as Virtue, Nobility, and Reason
Defending Moral Economy (Oikonomike) Against Political Economy (Chrematistike)
Ancient Dreams of Reciprocal Grace and Communal Justice
Friendship of Brothers and Commonwealth of Citizens
Practical Wisdom as Deliberation and Discourse
Classical Democracy in Herodotus, Pericles, and Thucydides
Constitution and Law in the Ideal Polity
Collective Judgments and Discursive Rationality in Classical Democracy
Aristotle and Classical Social Theory: Social Justice and Moral Economy in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim	p. 79
Human Need, Emancipation, and Communal Democracy in Marx
Understanding, Historical Hermeneutics, and Practical Science in Weber
Science of Morality, Functionalism, and Democratic Socialism in Durkheim
Kant on the Critique of Reason and Science	p. 139
Hume's Empiricism and Theory of Sensuous Impressions
Skepticism and the Crisis of Modem Reason
Kant's Critical Theory of Knowledge and Judgment
Transcendental Aesthetic and Theory of Representations
Transcendental Analytic, Categories of the Understanding, and Theory of Objectivity
Revolution in Subjectivity and Objectivity
Imagination and the Synthetic Unity of Self-Consciousness
Practical Reason, Moral Autonomy, and the Kingdom of Ends
Kant and Classical Social Theory: Epistemology, Logic, and Methods in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim	p. 195
Dialectical Science and the Critique of Political Economy in Marx
Disenchantment of Reason and Demystification of Objectivity in Weber
Moral Ideals and Social Theory of Representations in Durkheim
Conclusion	p. 255
Dreams of Classical Reason: Historical Science Between Existentialism and Antiquity
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 361
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