In this book, Varela revisits the problem of structure versus agency. Based on his original insight into Kant's role in the debate, the author is able to solve this centuries old dilemma for the first time. He goes on to explain the wider ramifications of his discovery, addressing Giddens Call, the stalemate of the social and psychological sciences, determinism in science and postmodernism.
In this book, Varela revisits the problem of structure versus agency. Based on his original insight into Kant's role in the debate, the author is able to solve this centuries old dilemma for the first time. He goes on to explain the wider ramifications of his discovery, addressing Giddens Call, the stalemate of the social and psychological sciences, determinism in science and postmodernism.
Charles R. Varela was a professor of psychology and sociology for 37 years at Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey. He is engaged in writing papers and books for the scholarly community and is electively involved in graduate seminars on social and anthropological theory.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Science for Humanism 1. Historical context: Humanism and Giddens's Call 2. Theoretical framework: Postmodernism and After 3. Kant and the Stalemate of the Social Sciences: Prelude and Transformation 4. Kant and the Stalemate of the Psychological Sciences: Behavior and Energy Part II: Returning to Kant and the Stalemate of Sociology 5. Simmel: Sociation and the Real Apriori of Power 6. Durkheim: The Social Fact as a New Third Antinomy 7. Weber: The Noumenal Freedom of the Historical Actor 8. Parsons, Dahrendorf, Berger: Rituals of Return Part III: Returning to Kant and Answering Giddens' Call 9. The Dynamical Theory of Matter: Natural Agency 10. Kantian Realism: Human Agency
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Science for Humanism 1. Historical context: Humanism and Giddens's Call 2. Theoretical framework: Postmodernism and After 3. Kant and the Stalemate of the Social Sciences: Prelude and Transformation 4. Kant and the Stalemate of the Psychological Sciences: Behavior and Energy Part II: Returning to Kant and the Stalemate of Sociology 5. Simmel: Sociation and the Real Apriori of Power 6. Durkheim: The Social Fact as a New Third Antinomy 7. Weber: The Noumenal Freedom of the Historical Actor 8. Parsons, Dahrendorf, Berger: Rituals of Return Part III: Returning to Kant and Answering Giddens' Call 9. The Dynamical Theory of Matter: Natural Agency 10. Kantian Realism: Human Agency
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