State of Nature, Stages of Society : : Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse / / Frank Palmeri.
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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to for...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Conjectural History, the Form and Its Afterlife
- 1. Conjectural History: The Enlightenment Form
- 2. Political Economy and the Question of Progress
- 3. Comte, Spencer, and the Science of Society
- 4. The Origins of Culture and of Anthropology
- 5. Darwin, Nietzsche, and the Prehistory of the Human
- 6. The Social Psychology of Religion
- 7. Novels as Conjectural Histories
- Conclusion: Conjecturalism Now
- Appendix 1. Enlightenment Conjectural Histories
- Appendix 2. Hegel, History, and Conjecture
- Appendix 3. Were Conjectural Histories Racist?
- Notes
- Index