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Magisterial Imagination: Six Masters of the Human Science

by Max Lerner
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781560001683
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised Edition
  • Item Weight: 600 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / General

This work brings together Max Lemer's extended and enduring essays on Aristotle, Niccolb Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Thorstein Veblen, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Combining biography and interpretation, Lerner insightfully examines a cluster of thinkers who helped shape his own influential work in political theory and civilizational analysis. Viewed collectively, these essays show Turner's method and mind at their best.

Like Lerner himself, the "masters" were tough-minded realists--philosophers who saw human experience in all of its variety as central to study. Less inclined to metaphysical speculation, they wrestled with the real concerns and circumstances of therr times--but always within the larger context of ultimate meaning and consequence. Lerner eloquently introduces each philosopher and his work, but he also provides his own criticism and commentary. Complicated subjects are clearly presented, and cross-disciplinary analysis enhances the reader's sense of the whole.

In his introduction, Robert Schmuhl discusses why Lerner was attracted to these particular thinkers and how they refined his approach to the human sciences. Schmuhl also traces the influence of these figures on Lemer's work. Magisterial Imagination will be of importance to philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists.

Schmuhl, Robert: -

Robert Schmuhl is Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also chairperson of the department of American Studies and director of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy. He is editor of Transaction's collection of Max Lerner's essays, Magisterial Imagination: Six Masters of Human Sciences. Among Schmuhl's other books are Statecraft and Stagecraft, Demanding Democracy, and The Responsibilities of Journalism.

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