The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences

by Barry Glassner

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of the modem world, but usually the ideas were taken separately and as divided from their systematic context. The power of number was an idea the En- lightenment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048184606
• ISBN13: 9789048184606
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"