Relativism and the Social Sciences

by Ernest Gellner

Book Overview

This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? There is a profound irony in the fact that this self-doubt has become most acute in the one civilisation that has persuaded the rest of the world to emulate it. The claim to cognitive superiority is often restricted, of course, to the limited sphere of natural science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337984
• ISBN13: 9780521337984
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"