Kei Yoshida

Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism

A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions

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Produktbeschreibung

Kei Yoshida critically assesses five different theoretical approaches to cultural interpretivism and conclusions on rationality. This book reveals the need for a cogent solution to the problem of rationality and urges social scientists to interpret symbolic systems' or agents’ intentions as well as explain the consequences of human actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9780739173992
• ISBN-10: 0739173995
• Artikelnr.: 41023732

Autorenporträt

Kei Yoshida is project lecturer at the University of Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Rationality and Other Cultures: The Case of Peter Winch
Chapter 3: Problems with Charles Taylor's Philosophy of the Human Sciences
Chapter 4: Defending Scientific Study of the Social: Against Clifford
Geertz (and His Critics)
Chapter 5: Rationality Relativised or Degrees of Rationality: Marshall
Sahlins versus Gananath Obeyesekere
Chapter 6: Psychoanalytic Anthropology Psychologized: The Case of Gananath
Obeyesekere
Chapter 7: Why Cultural Interpretivism Fails: The Distinction between
Nature and Convention, and the Unintended Consequences of Human Actions
Chapter 8: Conclusion