Invisible hands : self-organization and the eighteenth century /

"Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems--natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others--whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such order...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sheehan, Jonathan, 1969- (Autor), Wahrman, Dror (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
1700-1799
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Order > Religious aspects.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Enlightenment.
Philosophie > 18e siècle.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Siècle des Lumières.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Enlightenment
Order > Religious aspects
Philosophy, Modern
Social sciences > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I
  • Prologue: Europeans at the threshold
  • Providence and the orders of the world
  • Living in complexity circa 1700
  • Man-made apocalypse: The public emergence of self-organization
  • Part 2
  • Prologue: An island of dreams
  • The order and organization of life
  • The emergence of mind
  • Part 3
  • Prologue: An island of goats
  • The secret concatenation of society
  • The politics of self-organization.

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