TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zijderveld
TI  - Rickert's Relevance: The Ontological Nature and Epistemological Functions of Values 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047409793
AV  - B3323.R4954 Z53 2006
U1  - 193 221
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Rickert, Heinrich,
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Values
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In the wake of the renewed interest in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the neo-Kantian theories of Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) are increasingly drawing attention. This monograph is an attempt to rescue Rickert from an undeserved oblivion by an analysis of his systematic philosophy of values. The author discusses Rickert's epistemology and ontology which lay the foundation for a methodology of the Natural Sciences and the Humanities. In Rickert's view these types of science are not in opposition to each other but operate on a continuum between two extremes: a 'generalizing' (natural-scientific) and an 'individualizing' (cultural-scientific) approach to reality. The social sciences in particular operate on this continuum in a flexible manner, sometimes close to the natural-scientific pole as in the case of experimental psychology or econometrics, sometimes close to the cultural-scientific approach, as in the case of cultural sociology or cultural history. Thus there is in Rickert's logic of science no room for any methodological quarrel
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047409793
ER  -