History, Man, and Reason : A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought /

The purpose of this book is to draw attention to important aspects of thought in the nineteenth century. While its central concerns lie within the philosophic tradition, materials drawn from the social sciences and elsewhere provide important illustrations of the intellectual movements that the auth...

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Auteur principal: Mandelbaum, Maurice, 1908-1987
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Édition:Open access edition.
Collection:Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
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Table des matières:
  • part I. Philosophical background
  • 1. Philosophic movements in the nineteenth century
  • part II. Historicism
  • 2. The nature and scope of historicism
  • 3. The first phase of historicism : from the Enlightenment through Hegel
  • 4. The search for a science of society : from Saint-Simon to Marx and Engels
  • 5. Evolution and progress
  • 6. Social evolutionism
  • 7. Historicism : a critical appraisal
  • part III. The malleability of man
  • 8. Challenges to constancy
  • 9. Geneticism : the associationist tradition
  • 10. Organicism : culture and human nature
  • 11. Man as a progressive being
  • 12. Constancy and change in human nature : a critical account
  • part IV. The limits of reason
  • 13. Critiques of the instellectual powers of man : the idealist strand
  • 14. Ignoramus, ignorabimus : the positivist strand
  • 15. The rebellion against reason
  • 16. The limits reappraised.