TY - BOOK AU - Sherratt,Yvonne TI - Continental Philosophy of Social Science SN - 9780511610691 (ebook) AV - BD241 .S497 2006 U1 - 190 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017) N2 - Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610691 ER -