• Publisher: *cf.
• 537 pages
• Author: Rastko Močnik
• Original title: Spisi iz humanistike

This book considers the problems of the humanities and social sciences from a historical and an epistemological perspective. The decisive factors for the emergence of linguistics were the historical and comparative approaches as classically established in Indo-European linguistics. The work analyses the emergence of social sciences as a “compromise formation” enforced by the pressure that the Galilean paradigm of the modern era exerted on the humanities. The author discusses contemporary social sciences and humanities in constant confrontation with social processes, attempting to establish the principle that theories are always theorisations of practices. This is why this book does not merely consider various theories and their inner problems but tests the power of these theories when applied to the analysis of contemporary social processes. 

About the author

Rastko Močnik

Rastko Močnik (1944) is a retired Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His fields of interest are primarily the theories of ideology, the theories of discourses, theoretical sociology, theoretical psychoanalysis, semiotics, and the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. In the previous two decades, he has significantly contributed to the generational renewal of the local theoretical production in historical materialism.