Inventing human science : eighteenth-century domains /
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.
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Berkeley :
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©1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: how to prepare a noble savage : the spectacle of human science / Christopher 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 / Phillip Sloan
- Sex and gender / Ludmilla Jordanova
- Remaking the science of mind : psychology as 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.
