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Includes section "A Danubian chronicle".
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Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas Luhmann and critical social systems theorists, to challenge the commonly held view that the systems-based approach is holistic in nature and necessarily downplays the role of human agency. Theoretically sophisticated and investigating the work of a theorist whose work has until now received insufficient attention in Anglo-American thought, this book will be of interest to those working in the field of social theory, as well as scholars concerned with philosophy of social science, the project of analytical sociology, and the nature of the relationship between the natural and social sciences.
The first catalogues of Liszt’s œuvre were published during his own lifetime. In 1855, the Thematisches Verzeichniss appeared in print, but this included only a selection of his published works. An expanded version was issued in 1877, although it was still missing many published compositions. After Liszt’s death in 1886, it took a long time for there to be any serious scholarship focused on cataloguing the vast quantity of music by this prolific composer. The German composer Peter Raabe compiled the first exhaustive work-list in 1931, revised by Felix Raabe in 1968. In England, Humphrey Searle’s 1954 catalogue for Grove’s Dictionary of Music introduced “S” numbers, which neatly ...