The natural and the human science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841
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Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Part I. 1. The dichotomies of understanding : The place of reason
- Systematic knowledge
- Reason and sensibility
- The challenge to reason
- The limits of certainty
- The anatomy of reason. 2. Rethinking the nature of matter : The reaction to mechanism
- Chemical composition
- Chemical "elements"
- Vital forces
- The unity of force
- Naturalization. Part II. 3. Anthropological medicine : The idea of an anthropological medicine
- Matter and sensitivity
- Médecins philosophes
- Social medicine
- The demise of sensibility. 4. Philosophical anthropology : Metaphysics and psychology
- Language and art
- The shaping of experience
- The legitimacy of anthropological explanation. 5. The natural history of man : The problem of classification
- Anthropology and natural history
- Comparative anatomy
- Comparative geography
- Comparative history. 6. Social arithmetic : The fable of the Bees
- The naturalization of morality
- The quantification of everyday life
- The average man. Part III. 7. The naturalization of religion : The limits of reason
- The historicization of Christianity
- The evolution of religions
- Aesthetic humanism and the cultivation of the self. Conclusion.
