State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /

"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...

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Main Author:	Palmeri, Frank (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Series:	Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
Subjects:	History > Philosophy. Enlightenment. Social history > Philosophy. Progress > Philosophy. Commerce > Philosophy. Religion and sociology > Philosophy. Prediction (Logic) Imaginary histories. Social sciences > History. Social sciences > Philosophy.