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Hans Freyer’s Economic Philosophy After World War II

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Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School

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The work of the sociologist Hans Freyer is not well known, not only in today’s English-speaking community of the Social Sciences, but also among the younger German sociologists. Many regard Freyer’s biography as having been on the wrong path, because he supported the National Socialist movement at times. His work appears to be an illegitimate deviation from the mainstream of a nomological social science, a “Historical and Social Philosophy” or a “critique of culture”. But especially his later works from the 50s and 60s (on which we will concentrate here) include some remarkably modern and relevant aspects.1

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  1. Centre for Ethical Economy and Business Culture, The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research, Gerberstraße 26, D-30169, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Koslowski

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Kruse, V. (1997). Hans Freyer’s Economic Philosophy After World War II. In: Koslowski, P. (eds) Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59095-5_8

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