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State of Nature, Stages of Society: Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse

By Frank Palmeri

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231541282
DOI
10.7312/palm17516
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2122891 bytes)
Pages
384\384
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 00:41:36

Description

Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. This speculative framework creates a surprising ambivalence toward modernity in these disciplines. Takes the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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