The Natural and the Human - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Stephen Gaukroger
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-880160-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN:	0-19-880160-2
Barcode:	9780198801603

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