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• Record Nr.: UNINA9910222360503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: American Psychological Association
• Descrizione fisica: Collection; Database
• Soggetti: Behavioral Science; Social sciences; Psychology; Psychiatry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Molteplice
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Collezione
• Note generali: Abstracting and indexing database - no full text
• Sommario/riassunto: Banca dati bibliografica relativa a psicologia e discipline collegate pubblicata dall’American Psychological Association (APA).Copertura: dal 1806; Accesso: riconoscimento per IP, tramite proxy, via IDEM/GARR; utenti illimitati; Piattaforma: EBSCO; Struttura acquirente: Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche

Classical horizons : the origins of sociology in ancient Greece / / George E. McCarthy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960198803321
• Autore: McCarthy George E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-7914-8762-8; 1-4175-2023-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 301/.09
• Soggetti: Sociology - History; Sociology - Germany - Greek influences; Sociology - France - Greek influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CLASSICAL HORIZONS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: CRITIQUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND RETURN TO CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY -- 1. KARL MARX: ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- SCIENCE AND NATURE IN DEMOCRITUS AND EPICURUS -- NATURE, PRAXIS, AND SOCIAL OBJECTIVITY -- CLASSICAL NEEDS AND NEOCLASSICAL AESTHETICS -- ANCIENT AND MODERN DEMOCRACY -- GREEK SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN CAPITAL -- RATIONALIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND THE LOGIC OF CAPITAL -- GREEK PHYSICS AND MARX'S DIALECTICAL SCIENCE -- CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE ANCIENT MODE OF PRODUCTION -- 2. MAX WEBER: GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY -- CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ANCIENT CAPITALISM -- CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE GREEK POLIS -- DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- NIETZSCHE AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK TRAGEDY -- EXISTENTIAL NIHILISM AND THE PERSPECTIVISM OF SCIENCE -- HISTORY OF WESTERN SCIENCE FROM PLATO TO THE PRESENT -- PROPHETS OF POSITIVISM AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE -- RATIONALIZATION AND THE ECLIPSE OF REASON -- CLASSICAL HUMANISM AND HISTORICAL ECONOMICS -- 3. EMILE DURKHEIM: GREEK POLIS AND THE SOLIDARITY OF THE CONSCIENCE COLLECTIVE -- ARISTOTLE, MONTESQUIEU, AND ; THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY -- ORIGINS OF SOCIETY IN ROUSSEAU AND ARISTOTLE -- EPISTEMOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM IN KANT AND SCHOPENHAUER -- COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS AS SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY -- HELLENIC SOLIDARITY AND MODERN ANOMIE -- CLASSICAL PEDAGOGY AND MODERN POLITICS -- CLASSICAL JUSTICE INFORMING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- 4. AWAKENING CLASSICAL DREAMS: SYNTHESIS OF ANCIENT JUSTICE AND MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION: CRITIQUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND RETURN TO CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY -- 1: KARL MARX: ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.; 2: MAX WEBER: GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY -- 3: EMILE DURKHEIM: GREEK POLIS AND THE SOLIDARITY OF THE CONSCIENCE COLLECTIVE -- 4: AWAKENING CLASSICAL DREAMS: SYNTHESIS OF ANCIENT JUSTICE AND MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Argues that classical social theory has its intellectual and moral roots in classical Greece. Winner CHOICE 2003 Outstanding Academic Title "McCarthy's ... erudition may very well render this work a contemporary classic in the continuing discussion of a maturing discipline." -- CHOICE.