Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains

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University of California Press (1995)
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A work of remarkable cross-disciplinary scholarship, this volume illuminates the origins of the human sciences and offers a new view of the Enlightenment that ...

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Political Economy: The Desire and Needs of Present and Future Generations.Sylvana Tomaselli
The enlightenment science of politics.Robert Wokler
Introduction: How to Prepare a Noble Savage: The Spectacle of Human Science.  (pages 1--30)Christopher Fox
Anthropology and conjectural history in the enlightenment.  (pages 31--52)Robert Wokler
Medical science and human science in the enlightenment.  (pages 53--87)Roy Porter
The language of human nature.  (pages 88--111)Roger Smith
The gaze of natural history.  (pages 112--51)Philip Sloan
Sex and Gender.  (pages 152--183)Ludmilla Jordanova
Remaking the science of mind: Psychology as a natural science.  (pages 184–231)Gary Hatfield

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