Zu einem Kapitel der jüngsten Philosophiegeschichte / Ingeborg Bachmann -- Bildnis eines Philosophen / Maurice Cranston -- Wittgenstein oder die Destruktion / José Ferrater Mora -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / Paul Feyerabend -- Unphilosophische Betrachtungen / Erich Heller -- Vorwort zum Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Bertrand Russell -- Biographische Betrachtung / George Henrik von Wright.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Begriff des Spieles und das ästhetische Weltbild in der Philosophie der Gegenwart" verfügbar.

This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to (...) abstract natural science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience. According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K. Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to Alfred Schütz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students. (shrink)