The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841

Author(s)

• Gaukroger, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841

Stephen Gaukroger

Oxford University Press, 2018

• : pbk

Note

First published 2016

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-393) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I 1: The Dichotomies of Understanding 2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter Part II 3: Anthropological Medicine 4: Philosophical Anthropology 5: The Natural History of Man 6: Social Arithmetic Part III 7: The Naturalization of Religion Conclusion Bibliography of Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BB2607733X
• ISBN:
  • 9780198801603
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 402 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 501
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Empiricism
  • LCSH : Human behavior