Hegel's break with Kant: the leap from individual psychology to sociology
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Scholars who claim that Hegel's theories on social reality are a mere extension of Kant's idealism miss the fundamental distinctions between their philosophical approaches. While Kant used the supposedly scientific and objective approach in studying nature on his studies of human nature, Hegel recognized that reality is not bound by a single individual's conscious conception of truth. Hegel believes that study of human relations with each other is the key to the understanding of social reality.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 1998
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Bauman's ways of seeing the world
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Zygmunt Bauman's sociology has been examined by Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe but such research neglected the discontinuities of the thought under consideration and the shift to hermeneutics or the aporetic. Bauman combined scholarly and literary talents with the publication of 'Legislators and Interpreters.' His diagnosis of postmodernity is accurate and his international fame well deserved.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 1998
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The right to inconsistency
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Zygmunt Bauman believed the incongruities of life were best reflected in an analytical effort that moved between perspectives without forcing synthesis of ideas. He claimed the right to inconsistency, a principle that violates a requirement of scholarly discourse. Authors are free to select a conceptual framework and method but are then forced to maintain them.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 1998
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