Reviews for An introduction to the social sciences

The average rating for An introduction to the social sciences based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-13 00:00:00 Nicholas Chapman This book is a collection of articles by Ronald Dworkin. It is a very interesting book to read in light of the crisis of liberal politics and theories in the eighties coinciding with the rise of the 'Reagan Revolution' and neoconservatism in general in the Anglo-American world. The book is centered around an attempt to define what liberalism is and is not in that context, to differentiate between 'constitutive' and 'derivative' positions of liberalism, as well as between 'matters of policy' and 'matters of principle'. If you don't allow yourself though to be swept by Dworkin's famously forceful style and fascinating rhetoric, you'll find that many of the distinctions he struggles to elaborate are arbitrary and rhetorical. All in all, the book is worth reading from a Critical-Theory point of view contextualising ideas and theories and examining the effect of political and economic circumstances on the elaboration of theories and knowledge.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-03 00:00:00 Susan Smith Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Jeremy Bentham (1988)