The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity Conceptual Change in Context, 1750–1850

This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. I...

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Other Authors: Heilbron, J. (Editor), Magnusson, Lars (Editor), Wittrock, Björn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
  • The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity
  • French Moralists and the Anthropology of the Modern Era: On the Genesis of the Notions of ‘Interest’ and ‘Commercial Society’
  • The Construction of the Social Sciences in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Germany
  • The Transformation of Philosophy
  • The Language of Mercantilism: The English Economic Discussion during the Seventeenth Century
  • Natural Law and the Origins of Nationalökonomie: L.H. von Jakob
  • Mathematics, Administrative Reform and Social Sciences in France at the End of the Eighteenth Century
  • From Political Arithmetic to Social Statistics: How Some Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Social Sciences Were Implanted
  • Certainty and Order, Liberty and Contingency: The Birth of Social Science as Empirical Political Philosophy
  • About the Contributors
  • Name Index