State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /

Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Palmeri, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Series:Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
Enlightenment.
Social history > Philosophy.
Progress > Philosophy.
Commerce > Philosophy.
Religion and sociology > Philosophy.
Prediction (Logic)
Imaginary histories.
Social sciences > History.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Siècle des Lumières.
Histoire sociale > Philosophie.
Progrès > Philosophie.
Commerce > Philosophie.
Sociologie religieuse > Philosophie.
Prédiction (Logique)
Histoire-fiction.
Sciences sociales > Histoire.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Histoire > Philosophie.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
HISTORY > General.
Commerce > Philosophy
Enlightenment
History > Philosophy
Imaginary histories
Progress > Philosophy
Social history > Philosophy
Social sciences
Social sciences > Philosophy
Aufklärung
Sozialwissenschaften
Gesellschaft
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conjectural history : the Enlightenment form
  • Political economy and the question of progress
  • Comte, Spencer, and the science of society
  • The origins of culture and of anthropology
  • Darwin, Nietzsche, and the prehistory of the human
  • The social psychology of religion
  • Novels as conjectural histories
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Enlightenment conjectural histories
  • Appendix 2: Hegel, history, and conjecture
  • Appendix 3: Were conjectural histories racist?

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