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Inventing Human Science
Eighteenth-Century Domains
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Inventing Human Science
Eighteenth-Century Domains
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The human sciencesâincluding psychology, anthropology, and social theoryâare widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context, and effects of this major intellectual development.
The book argues that the most fundamental inspiration for the Enlightenment was the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Natural philosophers from Copernicus to Newton had created a magisterial science of nature based on the realization that the physical world operated according to orderly, discoverable laws. Eighteenth-century thinkers sought to cap this achievement with a science of human nature. Belief in the existence of laws governing human will and emotion; social change; and politics, economics, and medicine suffused the writings of such disparate figures as Hume, Kant, and Adam Smith and formed the basis of the new sciences.
A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that highlights the period's subtle social theory, awareness of ambiguity, and sympathy for historical and cultural difference.
The human sciencesâincluding psychology, anthropology, and social theoryâare widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context,
The book argues that the most fundamental inspiration for the Enlightenment was the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Natural philosophers from Copernicus to Newton had created a magisterial science of nature based on the realization that the physical world operated according to orderly, discoverable laws. Eighteenth-century thinkers sought to cap this achievement with a science of human nature. Belief in the existence of laws governing human will and emotion; social change; and politics, economics, and medicine suffused the writings of such disparate figures as Hume, Kant, and Adam Smith and formed the basis of the new sciences.
A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that highlights the period's subtle social theory, awareness of ambiguity, and sympathy for historical and cultural difference.
The human sciencesâincluding psychology, anthropology, and social theoryâare widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context,
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE Introduction How to Prepare a Noble Savage: The Spectacle of Human Science
- TWO Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment
- THREE Medical Science and Human Science in the Enlightenment
- FOUR The Language of Human Nature
- FIVE The Gaze of Natural History
- SIX Sex and Gender
- SEVEN Remaking the Science of Mind Psychology as Natural Science
- EIGHT The Enlightenment Science of Society
- NINE The Non-Normal Sciences Survivals of Renaissance Thought in the Eighteenth Century
- TEN Political Economy The Desire and Needs of Present and Future Generations
- ELEVEN The Enlightenment Science of Politics
- INDEX