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EVOLUTION
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Morris Ginsberg
For two generations the idea of progress has been under attack. For two generations the values of a rational ethic and liberal politics have been rejected. For two generations the world has endured war, despotism and terror. Now the climate is changing and the old values are emerging again. They have no more lucid or cogent defender than Professor Morris Ginsberg.
This volume represents his mature thought on the history and value of the idea of progress in Western society, and his assessment of the old problem of social evolution. His discussion of these questions culminates in what is surely the most impressive and hopeful analysis of the nature of social change... Tovább

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EVOLUTION
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Morris Ginsberg
For two generations the idea of progress has been under attack. For two generations the values of a rational ethic and liberal politics have been rejected. For two generations the world has endured war, despotism and terror. Now the climate is changing and the old values are emerging again. They have no more lucid or cogent defender than Professor Morris Ginsberg.
This volume represents his mature thought on the history and value of the idea of progress in Western society, and his assessment of the old problem of social evolution. His discussion of these questions culminates in what is surely the most impressive and hopeful analysis of the nature of social change that we are likely to see in our time. It is this culmination of his argument which makes this both an enlightening and an encouraging, as well as a timely, book.
Professor Ginsberg has always been unique in his mastery of fact and theory, his philosophical grasp and his sociological range. The second part of this volume exhibits these qualities in a hitherto unpublished account of European sociology in this century. The work of men like Max Weber and Emile Dürkheim has never before had so clear an exposition, nor have they been previously placed so centrally in the intellectual and scientific context of their age. AU the leading problems of comparative theoretical sociology are raised in their appropriate context, and this section will prove an excellent introduction to the whole subject for the enquiring reader, as well as an important contribution to the history of scientific thought.
'Evolution and Progress will both consolidate the reputation of the leading British sociologist of our time and serve as the best introduction to his work.
ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Morris Ginsberg
1. ON THE DIVERSITY OF
MORALS
2. REASON AND UNREASON
IN SOCIETY
These are the first two volumes of Professor Ginsberg's collected papers, in series with this book. *There are few aspects of man's activity in society that are not illuminated here It is not possible to do justice to the learning, moderation and good sense that illumine these volumes. One can only welcome a presentation of sociology so wholly free of the vices of presumption and verbiage, so intimately aware of the well-established techniques of the older sciences and humanities, and so well designed to place sociology in its true perspective.'—Charles Wilson in The Spectator.
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