State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /...
State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /...
State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse / Frank Palmeri.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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G 2016/780
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English
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xii, 370 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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 conjectur...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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New York (State)
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[2016]
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"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 formulate a naturalistic account of society's commer...
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State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse / Frank Palmeri.
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Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/780
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74VKzjP6pkWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzjP6pkWy
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0231175167 hardcover acid-free paper
9780231175166 hardcover acid-free paper
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901
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991023569969702626
