A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

Peter Wagner is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence

PART ONE: RECONSIDERING THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything Else but New
Classical Sociology and the First Crisis of Modernity
Time of Politics, and Not of Law
Political Analysis during the First Crisis of Modernity
Adjusting Social Relations
Social Science and the Organization of Modernity
The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal
Social Science and Reform Coalitions
Out of Step
The Social Sciences in the Second Crisis of Modernity
PART TWO: RETHINKING KEY CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Choice and Decision-Making
Action and Institution
Culture (with Heidrun Friese)
Society
Polity
Modernity