This book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant account of the ‘pre-history’ of sociology and a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of Romanticism.
Table des matières
Foreword.
Introduction.
Part I: The Rise of Social Theory:.
1. Intellectuals Between Academy and Salon.
2. Rivalry for Reason.
3. French Moralists and the Social Order.
4. The Construction of Social Theory.
5. Theoretical Models Compared: France and Scotland.
Part II: From Social Theory to Social Science:.
6. Reform, Revolution and the Napoleonic Era.
7. Intellectual Transformations Around 1800.
8. Natural Science and Revolution.
9. The Literary Opposition.
10. Models for a Social Science.
Part III: Foundations of Sociology:.
11. The Interrupted Career of Auguste Comte.
12. Politics, Science and Philosophy.
13. The Turn to the Philosophy of Science.
14. Response and Resistance.
Summary.
Notes.
Index.
A propos de l’auteur
Johan Heilbron is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.
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