Grand Theories
W.G. Runciman, 17 October 1985
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences
edited by Quentin Skinner.
Cambridge, 215 pp., £17.50, July 1985,0 521 26692 0 Show More
edited by Quentin Skinner.
Cambridge, 215 pp., £17.50, July 1985,
“... Skinner begins his Introduction by quoting from a celebrated attack on Talcott Parsons by C. Wright Mills, for whom Grand Theory was the most absurd but also the most serious impediment in the way of a sensible, informed and humane understanding of human societies. So one supposes that what is to follow is a carefully mounted assault on what the chosen ... ”
