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Autore |
Gissis Snait B. |
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Titolo |
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France / / by Snait B. Gissis |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2024.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Collana |
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History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, , 2211-1956 ; ; 36 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biology - Philosophy |
Europe - History |
Science - Philosophy |
Evolution (Biology) |
Philosophy of Biology |
European History |
Philosophy of Science |
Evolutionary Biology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jean Baptiste Lamarck: La marche de la nature -- Chapter 2. Herbert Spencer: The tripartite model -- Chapter 3. Interlude: The cluster of plasticity and the impact of its transfer -- Chapter 4. John Hughlings Jackson: A clinical scientist -- Chapter 5. Théodule Armand Ribot: ‘Scientific psychology’ in France -- Chapter 6. Interlude: ‘Hierarchy’ in nineteenth century Spencerian Lamarckism / neo-Lamarckism and its transfer -- Chapter 7. David Émile Durkheim: Founding ‘scientific sociology’ -- Chapter 8. Sigmund Freud, a neo-Lamarckist – Short Coda -- Chapter 9. Interlude: ‘Collectivity’ in the nineteenth century between the biological and the social -- Concluding reflection -- Appendix: Concise biographical portraits -- Notes -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, |
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analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining significant founding figures – Lamarck, Spencer, Hughlings Jackson, Ribot, Durkheim, Freud – who were not grouped nor analyzed in this manner before. Thus, the book offers a rather unique synthesis of the interactions of the social, the mental, and the evolutionary biological – Spencerian Lamarckism and/or Neo-Lamarckism – crystallizing into novel fields. It adds substantially to the understanding of the complexities of evolutionary debates during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It will attract the attention of a wide spectrum of specialists, academics, and postgraduates in European history of the nineteenth century, history and philosophy of science, and history of biology and of the social sciences, including psychology. |
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