ISAIAH BERLIN AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : Anti-Scientism, Value Pluralism, and the Limits of Social Knowledge

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Editorial: KBA13 Insight, 2025

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What are the limits of what the social sciences can know Isaiah Berlin spent a lifetime insisting there are limits-and that ignoring them has a moral cost.Isaiah Berlin is rarely read as a thinker of the social sciences. He wrote no manuals of method, proposed no unified theory, and resisted every attempt to systematize his thought. Yet few twentieth-century thinkers have shaped the moral and intellectual conditions under which the social sciences operate as deeply as Berlin. This book argues that his contribution, precisely because it resists system and certainty, is indispensable.Isaiah Berlin and the Social Sciences offers a sustained examination of Berlin's ideas in relation to some of the most enduring problems of social knowledge: explanation and prediction, freedom and authority, ideology and identity, power and legitimacy, pluralism and moral conflict. Rather than treating Berlin as a historian of ideas alone, this study situates his thought within the intellectual struggles of modern social inquiry and shows how his reflections continue to illuminate its limits and responsibilities.At the center of the book is Berlin's critique of scientism-the belief that social life can be understood, predicted, and managed according to the model of the natural sciences. Against this ambition, Berlin defended the irreducible plurality of values and the moral costs of intellectual overreach. His insistence on limits challenges theories that promise total explanation, moral certainty, or historical necessity, revealing how such promises often slide into domination.This book traces how Berlin's concepts of value pluralism, negative and positive liberty, and moral judgment intersect with key debates in sociology, political theory, and the philosophy of the social sciences. It explores ideology as a simplification of moral reality, identity as a source of both belonging and exclusion, and collective belief as a force capable of mobilization as well as coercion. Throughout, Berlin's work is read as a sustained warning against the transformation of understanding into mastery.Written as an interpretive study rather than a doctrinal exposition, the book acknowledges its own limits. It does not claim to offer definitive readings of Berlin, but to demonstrate why his thought cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the moral foundations of social knowledge. In doing so, it positions Berlin not as a provider of solutions, but as a thinker who disciplines expectations and restores moral seriousness to inquiry.This volume continues the author's ongoing engagement with Isaiah Berlin, begun in 2016 and developed through a series of publications released under KBA13 Insight since 2025. It is intended for scholars and readers in political theory, sociology, intellectual history, and the philosophy of the social sciences who seek a rigorous, humane, and pluralist approach to understanding modern society.…

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ISAIAH BERLIN AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : Anti-Scientism, Value Pluralism, and the Limits of Social Knowledge
Autor
Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
Editorial
KBA13 Insight
Año de publicación
2025
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798235626591
Peso del artículo
194 gramos
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216x140x8 mm
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Libro 7 de 8: Berlin Studies

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