Inventing human science : eighteenth-century domains / [electronic resource]
Fox, Christopher,1948-
Porter, Roy,1946-2002.
Wokler, Robert,1942-2006.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
1995.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Cristopher 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 / Philip Sloan -- Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Remaking the science of mind : psychology as a 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on print version record.
Social sciences
Enlightenment.
Social sciences
Enlightenment
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Behavioral Sciences
History, Modern 1601-
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
History
Psychiatry and Psychology
Humanities
History, 18th Century
Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Social Sciences - General