Social philosophy: the subject matter and the structure
The specific character of social philosophy. Social being and social consciousness. Philosophical meaning of the concept of society. Society as a system. Social system’s structure and its basic elements. Historical periodization of social development: formational, civilization, axial and wave approaches. BASIC LITERATURE: BORCHERT Donald M. Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, Gacl., 2006 HARRISON-BARBET A. Mastering Philosophy. – PALGRAVE, 2001. PARKINSON G. Routledge History of Philosophy: 10 Volume Set. – Routledge, 2003 PHILOSOPHY: The Power of Ideas, by Barnett D., Moore B.N., Bruder K. – California, London, Toronto, 1996 PHILOSOPHY: The Quest for Truth By Louis P. Pojman Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005 REAL PHILOSOPHY: An Anthology of the Universal Search for Meaning /Ed. By J. Needleman, D. Appelbaum, London, 1990 SPIRKIN ALEXANDER Fundamentals of Philosophy.-M.: Progress Publishers, 1990.- P. 267, 298-303 ADDITIONAL LITERATURE: PHILOSOPHY and CHOICE. Selected Reading from Around the World /Ed. by Kit R. Christensen. – Lnd., Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999 THEORIES of MODERNITY and POSTMODERNITY /Ed. By Bryan S. Turner. – Lnd.: SAGE Publications, 1991 BASIC PRIMARY SOURCES: KOZLOVSKI P.: Postmodernism Culture, Moscow: Republic, 1997, MARCUSE HERBERT One-Dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon, 1964) ORTEGA y GASSET Revolt of the Masses FRANK S. The Spiritual Basis of the Society. Moscow: Mir. Rogers K. (1995) SPENGLER O. The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks) by Oswald Spengler, Helmut Werner, Arthur Helps and Charles Francis Atkinson. Paperback.-Febr.14, 1991.- P.76-79. TOYNBEE ARTHUR A Study of history. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.- P.123-125