Science and scientism in nineteenth-century Europe
Title:
Science and scientism in nineteenth-century Europe
Author:
Olson, Richard, 1940-
ISBN:
9780252031885
9780252074332
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Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Ideology -- Saint-Simon, Saint-Simonianism, and the birth of socialism -- Auguste Comte and positivisms -- Naturphilosophie, romanticism, and nationalism -- The rise of materialisms and the reshaping of religion and politics -- Early Victorian culture : public science and political science -- The rise of evolutionary perspectives, 1820-59 -- Darwinian evolution : natural selection, group selection, and sexual selection -- "Social Darwinisms" and other evolutionary social theories -- The problem of degeneration in the late nineteenth century.
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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005146.htmlPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007005146-d.html