Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as ''scientific'' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoini...
The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as ''scientific'' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoini...
