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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784370403321

Autore

Heilbron Johan

Titolo

The rise of social theory / / Johan Heilbron ; translated by Sheila Gogol

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1995

ISBN

0-8166-8698-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 pages)

Collana

Contradictions of modernity

Disciplina

301/.09

Soggetti

Sociology - History

Social sciences - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Rise of Social Theory; Introduction; Part II: From Social Theory to Social Science; Introduction; Part III: Foundations of Sociology; Introduction; Conclusion; Notes; Index; B; C; E; H; L; N; S; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

A brilliant account of the origins of social theory and sociology, which provides a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of romanticism. The Rise of Social Theory is a methodologically innovative work, combining social and intellectual history to examine changes in the social sciences, along with the conditions under which these changes occurred. Heilbron discusses the work of early theorists such as Montesquieu and Rousseau, as well as the Scottish moral philosophers. He argues that it was the natural sciences, rather than moral philosophy or natural l