Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed an...

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Main Author: Gissis, Snait B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature Switzerland 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jean Baptiste Lamarck: La marche de la nature -- Chapter 2. Herbert Spencer: The tripartite model -- Chapter 3. Interlude: The cluster of plasticity and the impact of its transfer -- Chapter 4. John Hughlings Jackson: A clinical scientist -- Chapter 5. Théodule Armand Ribot: ‘Scientific psychology’ in France -- Chapter 6. Interlude: ‘Hierarchy’ in nineteenth century Spencerian Lamarckism / neo-Lamarckism and its transfer -- Chapter 7. David Émile Durkheim: Founding ‘scientific sociology’ -- Chapter 8. Sigmund Freud, a neo-Lamarckist – Short Coda -- Chapter 9. Interlude: ‘Collectivity’ in the nineteenth century between the biological and the social -- Concluding reflection -- Appendix: Concise biographical portraits -- Notes -- Index 
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520 |a The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining significant founding figures – Lamarck, Spencer, Hughlings Jackson, Ribot, Durkheim, Freud – who were not grouped nor analyzed in this manner before. Thus, the book offers a rather unique synthesis of the interactions of the social, the mental, and the evolutionary biological – Spencerian Lamarckism and/or Neo-Lamarckism – crystallizing into novel fields. It adds substantially to the understanding of the complexities of evolutionary debates during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It will attract the attention of a wide spectrum of specialists, academics, and postgraduates in European history of the nineteenth century, history and philosophy of science, and history of biology and of the social sciences, including psychology