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Relativism and the Social Sciences Hardcover - 1985

by Ernest Gellner


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This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? There is a profound irony in the fact that this self-doubt has become most acute in the one civilisation that has persuaded the rest of the world to emulate it. The claim to cognitive superiority is often restricted, of course, to the limited sphere of natural science and technology; and that immediately raises the second main theme of this volume - the differences between the human and natural sciences. These essays reach towards a new style and mode of enquiry - a mixture of philosophy, history and anthropology - that promises to prove more revealing and fruitful.

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  • Title Relativism and the Social Sciences
  • Author Ernest Gellner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
  • Date 1985
  • ISBN 9780521265300 / 0521265304
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 13.79 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sociology, Social sciences
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84017042
  • Dewey Decimal Code 300
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