Individualism in Modern Thought

From Adam Smith to Hayek

Lorenzo Infantino (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-18524-0 (ISBN)

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This book is a comprehensive survey of methodological individualism in social, political and economic thought from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Exploring the works of such figures as de Mandeville, Smith, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this study underlines the contrasts between methodological collectivism and methodological individualism. The detailed analysis offered here also reveals the theoretical presuppositions behind the collectivist and individualist traditions and the practical consequences of their applications. Infantino concludes in favour of individualism.

Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Sociology at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Bernard De Mandeville and Adam Smith; Chapter 3 Which Method?; Chapter 4 Durkheim and the Application of the Collectivistic Method; Chapter 5 Is an ‘Individualistic’ Reading of Durkheim Possible?; Chapter 6 Economists and Sociologists Compared; Chapter 7 The Early Parsons; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.1998
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-415-18524-6 / 0415185246
ISBN-13	978-0-415-18524-0 / 9780415185240
Zustand	Neuware