Bøker av Geoffrey (University of Cambridge) Hawthorn

This highly original and engaging perspective on Thucydides' understanding of practical politics explains how he presented the realities of politics and what makes his view distinctive, even from modern theories which claim an explicit connection with his work. The book offers new insights into ways of thinking about politics over time.

This widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and modern times. Its conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.

Geoffrey Hawthorn has written an acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century onwards. He examines not only the 'founding-fathers' of sociology (Marx, Durkheim and Weber), Hawthorn also examines the work of Rousseau, Kant and Hegel.