Inventing Human Science : Eighteenth-Century Domains / edited by Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, and Robert Wokler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Christopher, 1948- editor.

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, editor.

Wokler, Robert, 1942-2006, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--History--18th century.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 357 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The human sciences - including psychology, anthropology, and social theory - are widely held to have been born during the 18th century. This full-length, English-language study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context, and effects of this major intellectual development.

Contents:

Introduction : how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Cristopher Fox

Anthropology and conjectural history in the Enlightenment / Robert Wokler

Medical science and human science in the Enlightenment / Roy Porter

The language of human nature / Roger Smith

The gaze of natural history / Philip Sloan

Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova

Remaking the science of mind : psychology as a natural science / Gary Hatfield

The Enlightenment science of society / David Carrithers

The non-normal sciences : survivals of renaissance thought in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty

Political economy : the desire and needs of present and future generations / Sylvana Tomaselli

The Enlightenment science of politics / Robert Wokler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520916227

0520916220

9780585031729

058503172X

OCLC:

1224279286