Science and scientism in nineteenth-century Europe
By: Richard G. Olson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780252031885; 9780252074332
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Science and civilization; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-334) and index
Table of contents: title: Ideology; title: Saint-Simon, Saint-Simonianism, and the birth of socialism; title: Auguste Comte and positivisms; title: Naturphilosophie, romanticism, and nationalism; title: The rise of materialisms and the reshaping of religion and politics; title: Early Victorian culture : public science and political science; title: The rise of evolutionary perspectives, 1820-59; title: Darwinian evolution : natural selection, group selection, and sexual selection; title: "Social Darwinisms" and other evolutionary social theories; title: The problem of degeneration in the late nineteenth century