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" State of nature, stages of society : "
Frank Palmeri.
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876648
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Palmeri, Frank
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State of nature, stages of society : : enlightenment conjectural history and modern social discourse /\ Frank Palmeri.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, 2016.
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, ©2016
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Columbia Studies in Political Thought, Political History
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1 online resource (xii, 370 pages)
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0231541287
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0231175167
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9780231175166
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Conjectural history : the Enlightenment form -- Political economy and the question of progress -- Comte, Spencer, and the science of society -- The origins of culture and of anthropology -- Darwin, Nietzsche, and the prehistory of the human -- The social psychology of religion -- Novels as conjectural histories -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Enlightenment conjectural histories -- Appendix 2: Hegel, history, and conjecture -- Appendix 3: Were conjectural histories racist?
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Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. This approach informs the work of political economists, anthropologists, sociologists, and sociologists of religion, and its speculative framework creats a surprising ambivalence toward modernity.
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Commerce-- Philosophy.
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Enlightenment.
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History-- Philosophy.
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Imaginary histories.
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Prediction (Logic)
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Progress-- Philosophy.
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Religion and sociology-- Philosophy.
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Social history-- Philosophy.
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Social sciences-- History.
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Social sciences-- Philosophy.
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Commerce-- Philosophy.
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Enlightenment.
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HISTORY-- General.
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History-- Philosophy.
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Imaginary histories.
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Prediction (Logic)
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Progress-- Philosophy.
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Social history-- Philosophy.
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Social sciences-- Philosophy.
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Social sciences.
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901
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D16.9
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