Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory

by Maurice Mandelbaum

Book Overview

Originally published in 1987. Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421431912
• ISBN13: 9781421431918
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"