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 of Content
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.
About the author
Johan Heilbron is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.
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