Title | The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity [electronic resource] : Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850 / edited by Johan Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Bjรถrn Wittrock |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5528-1 |
Descript | VII, 206 p. online resource |
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 โInterestโ and โCommercial Societyโ -- 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 Nationalรถkonomie: 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