The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by John Levi Martin ISBN 9780231559737, 9780231213127, 0231213123, 0231559739 instant download

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action by John Levi Martin ISBN 9780231559737, 9780231213127, 0231213123, 0231559739 instant download

In The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, John Levi Martin explores these structures, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought. By examining how thinkers mapped interpersonal to intrapersonal structures, he traces the development of the underlying architectonics of theory, focusing on one that was inherited from eighteenth-century philosophy and brought into social science in the nineteenth century. He shows that the structural tensions inherent in these theories paralleled those being worked out in practical terms by constitutional theorists as thinkers attempted to return to their most fundamental understandings of the nature of the human, the social, and the political to recraft their societies. A magisterial new interpretation of the foundations of sociological thought, The True, the Good, and the Beautiful is as ambitious a work of social theory as we have seen in generations.