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(2018) The idea of social science and proper phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Social science is in crisis. By this "crisis" I mean that the genuine scientific character of social science itself lies in a questionable state. Despite many claiming to do social science, these claimants struggle to cohere with one another as to what is meant by "social science". The task of social science as it will be defined in this book is (co-opting Sartre) the study of "man in situation": to understand the world as it is for "man". Following Husserl, such a science receives its "genuine character" insofar as it is the pursuit of nonpractical knowledge. My focus in this book is with those who have advocated this idea of social science—though none have done so in these exact terms—and why they have consistently failed to realise it. In this first chapter I lay the basis for how we know there is a crisis and how it is I intend to go about analysing it with a future aim to resolving it. This will contextualise my understanding of phenomenology in relation to the philosophy of social science and why I have chosen Religious Studies as a useful case study for examining and demonstrating the consequences of this crisis.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92120-4_1
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Tuckett, J. (2018). Introduction, in The idea of social science and proper phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-27.
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