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Inventing human science : eighteenth-century domains /

The human sciences - including psychology, anthropology, and social theory - are widely held to have been born during the 18th century. This full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context, and effects of this major intellectual development.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fox, Christopher, 1948-, Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, Wokler, Robert, 1942-2006
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Christopher Fox
  • Anthropology and conjectural history in the Enlightenment / Robert Wokler
  • Medical science and human science in the Enlightenment / Roy Porter
  • The language of human nature / Roger Smith
  • The gaze of natural history / Phillip Sloan
  • Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova
  • Remaking the science of mind : psychology as natural science / Gary Hatfield
  • The Enlightenment science of society / David Carrithers
  • The non-normal sciences : survivals of Renaissance thought in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty
  • Political economy : the desire and needs of present and future generations / Sylvana Tomaselli
  • The Enlightenment science of politics / Robert Wokler.