Research Catalog

Title

Social existence : metaphysics, Marxism, and the social sciences / Richard Quinney.

Author

Quinney, Richard.

Publication

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1982.

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Details

Description

193 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This exciting, ambitious work attempts to rework into the body of social science concerns that are now more often associated with philosophy. Richard Quinney presents a new paradigm, one that draws on metaphysics and Marx. Does a modern capitalist society require an irreligious, secular spirit to justify exploitation? Quinney believes the division between the secular and the sacred approaches, both of which divide the world into social life and spiritual life, is collapsing. This book is nothing less than an attempt to integrate the two.

Series Statement

Sage library of social research ; v. 141

Uniform Title

Sage library of social research ; v. 141.

Subject

• Sociology > Philosophy
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Metaphysics
• First philosophy
• Metaphysics
• sociology of knowledge
• metaphysics
• First philosophy
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Philosophie
• Sozialphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Soziologie
• Sociale werkelijkheid
• Metafysica
• Marxisme
• Ethische aspecten

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The search for meaning -- The word becomes known -- Being in the world -- Ontological existence -- A question of metaphysics -- Symbols in the search for meaning -- 2. The problem of reality -- Beyond appearances versus reality -- On form and beauty -- Believing and knowing -- Hermeneutics and the meaning of reality -- 3. Metaphysics of existence -- The sacred and the secular -- Traditional metaphysics -- Religious experience -- Symbols. metaphors, and myths -- Metaphysics in the world -- 4. Critical meaning of social existence -- Social existence -- the dialectic of social existence -- Critical reflection -- 5. Struggle for social existence -- Moral existence -- Social and spiritual existence -- Socialist existence -- Social transformation -- Meaning in the world -- 6. Nature of the world -- The natural world -- Nature and community -- Nature and transcendence -- The way of nature.

ISBN

• 080390830X
• 9780803908307
• 0803908318
• 9780803908314

LCCN

82005903

OCLC

• ocm08474385
• 8474385
• SCSB-44569

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library