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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Conjectural history : the Enlightenment form
  • Political economy and the question of progress
  • Comte, Spencer, and the science of society
  • The origins of culture and of anthropology
  • Darwin, Nietzsche, and the prehistory of the human
  • The social psychology of religion
  • Novels as conjectural histories
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Enlightenment conjectural histories
  • Appendix 2: Hegel, history, and conjecture
  • Appendix 3: Were conjectural histories racist?