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Critique of Western philosophy and social theory

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Critique of Western philosophy and social theory/ David Sprintzen.
Author:	Sprintzen, David.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	x, 287 p.
Subject:	Social sciences - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230101777

Critique of Western philosophy and social theory
Sprintzen, David.

Critique of Western philosophy and social theory[electronic resource] /David Sprintzen. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - x, 287 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A world in crisis -- Living in a world without God : an overview -- The end of an era : twilight of the gods -- A ripple in a field -- Telling our story : myths for a new world -- Ecosense : niches, nodes, networks, and matrices -- The webbed self : deconstructing individualism --The Americanenterprise -- Current patterns and future prospects : reflections for the twenty-first century.

The "existential" drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmictransformation in our institutions and modes of belief. It rivals in scope and significance, if it does not surpass,the transformation occasioned by the "Scientific Revolution" of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.&

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230101777Subjects--Topical Terms:

88040
Social sciences
--Philosophy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: H61 / .S795 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 190

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