The rise of social theory /
A brilliant account of the origins of social theory and sociology, which provides a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of romanticism. The Rise of Social Theory is a methodologically innovative work, combining social and intellectual history to examine chan...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
1995.
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Colección: | Contradictions of modernity ;
v. 1. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A brilliant account of the origins of social theory and sociology, which provides a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of romanticism. The Rise of Social Theory is a methodologically innovative work, combining social and intellectual history to examine changes in the social sciences, along with the conditions under which these changes occurred. Heilbron discusses the work of early theorists such as Montesquieu and Rousseau, as well as the Scottish moral philosophers. He argues that it was the natural sciences, rather than moral philosophy or natural l. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-308) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780745667027 0745667023 9780816686988 081668698X |