Publisher's Synopsis
How did Europe's social sciences and humanities originate, what did they achieve and what not? Guided by some commonsensical notions as, among others, the hermeneutical triad or Musil's distinction of 'ratioid' and 'nonratioid' processes of knowledge acquisition, the study of significant chapters in the history of leading human sciences undertaken in this monograph suggests some thought-provoking answers to these questions.
