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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459340103321

Autore

Lyas Colin

Titolo

Peter Winch / / Colin Lyas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-49028-2

1-315-71088-9

1-282-53470-X

9786612534706

1-84465-320-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Philosophy now

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy, British

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1999 by Acumen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Peter Winch, a glimpse of a life; 1 ""Such understanding as I have"": The influence of Wittgenstein; 2 ""I was investigating the notion of the social"": The idea of a social science; 3 ""Seriously to study another way of life"": Understanding another society; 4 ""Good examples are indispensable"": The ethical life; 5 ""The concept of God is used"": The religious forms of life; 6 ""The interval of hesitation"": Peter Winch's Simone Weil; 7 ""Someone willing to die for truth"": Peter Winch's legacy; Envoi

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Sommario/riassunto

This is the first introduction to the ideas of the British philosopher, Peter Winch (1926-97). Although author of the hugely influential ""The Idea of a Social Science"" (1958) much of Winch's other work has been neglected as philosophical fashions have changed. Recently, however, philosophers are again seeing the importance of Winch's ideas and their relevance to current philosophical concerns. In charting the development of Winch's ideas, Lyas engages with many of the major preoccupations of philosophy of the past forty years. The range of Winch's ideas becomes apparent and his importance cl