Science For Humanism: The Recovery of Human Agency

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Science for Humanism 1. Historical context: Humanism and Giddens's Call 2. Theoretical framework: Postmodernism and After 3. Kant and the Stalemate of the Social Sciences: Prelude and Transformation 4. Kant and the Stalemate of the Psychological Sciences: Behavior and Energy Part II: Returning to Kant and the Stalemate of Sociology 5. Simmel: Sociation and the Real Apriori of Power 6. Durkheim: The Social Fact as a New Third Antinomy 7. Weber: The Noumenal Freedom of the Historical Actor 8. Parsons, Dahrendorf, Berger: Rituals of Return Part III: Returning to Kant and Answering Giddens' Call 9. The Dynamical Theory of Matter: Natural Agency 10. Kantian Realism: Human Agency