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