The Rise of Social Theory

This book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant account of the "pre-history" of sociology and a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of Romanticism.

Auteur
Johan Heilbron is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Contenu
Foreword. Introduction.

Part I: The Rise of Social Theory:.

1. Intellectuals Between Academy and Salon.

2. Rivalry for Reason.

3. French Moralists and the Social Order.

4. The Construction of Social Theory.

5. Theoretical Models Compared: France and Scotland.

Part II: From Social Theory to Social Science:.

6. Reform, Revolution and the Napoleonic Era.

7. Intellectual Transformations Around 1800.

8. Natural Science and Revolution.

9. The Literary Opposition.

10. Models for a Social Science.

Part III: Foundations of Sociology:.

11. The Interrupted Career of Auguste Comte.

12. Politics, Science and Philosophy.

13. The Turn to the Philosophy of Science.

14. Response and Resistance.

Summary.

Notes.

Index.