Abstract: After his return to the University of Frankfurt, Habermas published a series of works that brought new focus and coherence to his critique of positivism and his understanding of exactly what is entailed by “a theory of society conceived with a practical intention” (TP: 1). At the core of this work is the attempt to counter “scientism”, the tendency of positivism to regard the methods of the natural sciences as the only legitimate form of meaningful inquiry (KHI: 4). On the Logic of the Social Sciences, published in 1967, responds to the dominance of scientism in the philosophy of the social sciences by reviewing a “spectrum of nonconventional approaches” to philosophy and social theory, including the philosophy of language, hermeneutics and phenomenology (LSS: xiii), which might facilitate the rethinking of the nature of sociology as a discipline.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-06-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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