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Inventing human science : eighteenth-century domains / edited by Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, and Robert Wokler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520916227
  • 0520916220
  • 058503172X
  • 9780585031729
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inventing human science.DDC classification:
  • 300/.9/034 20
LOC classification:
  • H51 .I58 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Christopher 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 / Phillip Sloan -- Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Remaking the science of mind : psychology as 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Christopher 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 / Phillip Sloan -- Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Remaking the science of mind : psychology as 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.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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