Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook

by Yuval Levin

The astonishing success of the natural sciences in the modern era has led many thinkers to assume that similar feats of knowledge and power should be achievable in human affairs. That assumption, and the accompanying notion that the methods of modern science ought to be applied to social and political questions, have been at the heart of a number of prominent philosophical schools in the modern age, and much of the politics of the past century. Is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761818723
• ISBN13: 9780761818724
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"