State of nature, stages of society : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /
Palmeri, Frank,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conjectural history : the Enlightenment form -- Political economy and the question of progress -- Comte, Spencer, and the science of society -- The origins of culture and of anthropology -- Darwin, Nietzsche, and the prehistory of the human -- The social psychology of religion -- Novels as conjectural histories -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Enlightenment conjectural histories -- Appendix 2: Hegel, history, and conjecture -- Appendix 3: Were conjectural histories racist?
History
Enlightenment.
Social history
Progress
Commerce
Religion and sociology
Prediction (Logic)
Imaginary histories.
Social sciences
Social sciences