The Natural and the Human

Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Modern, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Stephen Gaukroger ISBN: 9780191074875
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: January 21, 2016
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
ISBN: 9780191074875
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: January 21, 2016
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful

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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful

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