Relating Humanities and Social Thought

This fourth volume of Edel's Science, Ideology and Value focuses in a Deweyan vein on the functional requirements at the base of the social sciences and humanities alike: discipline structures are subject to change, development, and decay, and even to categorial shifts as well as to readjustments

Abraham Edel

1. Comparative Modes of Inquiry: The Sciences and the Humanities, 2. Theory and Practice: An Unsteady Dichotomy, 3. Is the Individual-Social a Misleading Dichotomy?, 4. Elitism and Culture, 5. Legal Positivism: A Pragmatic Reanalysis, 6. Analytic Philosophy of Education at the Crossroads, 7. Anthropology and Ethics in Common Focus, 8. The Confrontation of Anthropology and Ethics, 9. Ethics-a Modest Science? 10. Ethical Theory in Twentieth-Century America, 11. Form: The Philosophic Idea and Some of Its Problems, 12. Biography among the Disciplines, 13. What Place for Philosophy in Contemporary Thought? 14. The Humanities and the State Councils: Retooling in the 1980s, 15. The Professors and the Grass Roots, 16. The Good Citizen, the Good Person, and the Good Society, 17. The Humanities and Public Policy: A Philosophical Perspective.