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The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences
Ian Shapiro
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Description for The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences
Paperback. Offers a searing indictment of the many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities. The author best known for his critique of rational choice theory, argues that scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from - and perpetuates - a flight from reality. He also answers many critics of his views. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 342.
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead ... Read more
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691134017
SKU
V9780691134017
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About Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro is the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Among his many books are "Containment" [Princeton], "The State of Democratic Theory" and, with Michael J. Graetz, "Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth" (Princeton); and ... Read more
Reviews for The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences
"In these probing essays ... Ian Shapiro offers a disturbing portrait of contemporary social science... [He] calls for academics to reconnect the academic enterprise to the real world by returning to problem-driven social inquiry
an urging that scholars of international relations and other fields should indeed ponder."
G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "Have you ever had difficulty talking to a political scientist ... Read more
an urging that scholars of international relations and other fields should indeed ponder."
G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "Have you ever had difficulty talking to a political scientist ... Read more