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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337695503321

Autore

Leroux Robert <1964->

Titolo

Antoine-Augustin Cournot as a Sociologist / / by Robert Leroux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04687-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

301

301.01

Soggetti

Historical sociology

Sociology

Political sociology

Historical Sociology

Sociological Theory

Political Sociology

Knowledge - Discourse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. - Chapter 1: Context and General Ideas of the Book -- Chapter 2: The Necessity of History -- Chapter 3: Epistemological Issues -- Chapter 4: Action, Rationalism, and Social Change -- Chapter 5: The Study of the Social Milieu -- Chapter 6: Cournot and the French Sociological Tradition. - Conclusion .

Sommario/riassunto

The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of yet, his sociological thought has not been explicitly discussed and contextualized within the discipline. From the 1850s to the end of the 1870s, Cournot contributed significantly to the history of French sociology, particularly in the development of one essential idea: that forms of knowledge are intimately linked to the progress of reason. Philosophy, therefore, becomes interested in the development of the sciences, evolving as they do from the process of rationalizing human societies. Cournot’s comparative-historical sociology, “rediscovered” especially by Gabriel Tarde in the 20th century, seeks to understand how a macro-



sociological trend can depend on the aggregation of a host individual decisions and actions, or to discern a certain order out of apparent chaos.