2009 November | Hichem Karoui

Beyond the Kuhnian Paradigm

Hans Radder

At issue in this paper is the question of the appropriate relationship between the philosophy and history of science. The discussion starts with a brief sketch of Kuhn’s approach, followed by an analysis of the so-called ‘testing-theories-of scientific- change programme’. This programme is an attempt at a more rigorous approach to the historical philosophy [...]

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776,
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]

The History of Sexuality

Michel Foucault

Volume I: An Introduction

Translated by: Robert Hurley

Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

Michel Foucault (1977)

in: Language Counter-Memory. Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews.

This essay first appeared in : Hommage à Jean Hyppolite (Paris, PUF 1971)…

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

David Harvey

Future historians may well look upon the years 1978–80 as a revolutionary turning-point in the world’s social and economic history. In 1978, Deng Xiaoping took the first momentous steps towards the liberalization of a communist-ruled economy in a country that accounted for a fifth of the world’s population. The path that Deng defined was [...]

Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought

Arnold I. Davidson

In presenting the topic of Michel Foucault’s significance as a writer of the history of ethics, I have two main goals. First, I hope to be able to elucidate Foucault’s own aims in shifting his attention, in his last , writings, to what he himself called “ethics.” These aims, in my opinion, have [...]

The Elementary Structures of Kinship

(Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté)

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

The fundamental characteristic of marriage as a form of exchange is seen particularly clearly in the case of dual organizations. This term defines a system in which the members of the community, whether it be a tribe or a village, are divided into two parts which maintain complex relationships [...]

Race et Histoire

Claude Lévi-Strauss

En 1952, l’UNESCO publiait une série de brochures consacrées au problème du racisme dans le monde. Parmi celles-ci, C. le Lévi-Strauss donnait avec “Race et Histoire” un court essai qui dépassait de beaucoup son sujet pour introduire à une réflexion nouvelle sur la culture occidentale, le sens de la civilisation, le caractère aléatoire [...]

L’ETHIQUE PROTESTANTE ET L'ESPRIT DU CAPITALISME

Max Weber (1904-1905)

Tous ceux qui, élevés dans la civilisation européenne d’aujourd’hui, étudient les problèmes de l’histoire universelle, sont tôt ou tard amenés à se poser, et avec raison, la question suivante : à quel enchaînement de circonstances doit-on imputer l’apparition, dans la civilisation occidentale et uniquement dans celle-ci, de phénomènes culturels qui – du moins [...]

The Sociology of Georg Simmel

TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION By: Kurt H. Wolff

SIMMEL’S READERS MAY well find themselves puzzled once they try to analyze their impression: does it come from an extraordinary mind or from its product, from a process or from an achievement, from an attitude or from the discoveries made by virtue of it? The dichotomies [...]

Globalization, global gender relations and value change in global society

A cross-national data collection

Arno TAUSCH*

This data set combines the most up-to-date data on globalization and gender relations (combining these with data from the World Values Survey). The dataset in EXCEL format is freely available and draws on the following sources:

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Volume 1 : Abortion-Cognitive Dissonance

William A. Darity Jr (Editor in Chief)

From the Introduction:

(…) The new edition reflects the impact of the rise of critical theory in its postmodernist forms on the social sciences, especially in the arenas of cultural anthropology, qualitative sociology, and methodology. Simultaneously, it includes the most sophisticated theoretical reaction to those [...]

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