A Cultural History of Causality
Subtitle: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780691127682
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; European - General; Historiography; American History; American Language and Literature; European History; History / Historiography; Philosophy; Psychology; General
First sentence: IN THE COURSE of the nineteenth century, as industrialism and urbanism transformed life beyond recognition and beyond conventional explanations, new disciplines emerged that looked increasingly to the past for causal understanding of human origins and the meaning of life.