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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2024, 2024
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
Series: | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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