Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond write by Martin S. Staum. This book was released on 2011-10-07. Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prevailing assumption has been that French ethnographers highlighted the cultural and social environment while anthropologists emphasized the scientific study of head and body shapes. Martin Staum shows that the temptation to gravitate towards one pole of the nature-nurture continuum often resulted in reluctant concessions to the other side. Psychologists Théodule Ribot and Alfred Binet, for example, were forced to recognize the importance of social factors. Non-Durkheimian sociologists were divided on the issue of race and gender as progressive and tolerant attitudes on race did not necessarily correlate with flexible attitudes on gender. Recognizing this allows Staum to raise questions about the theory of the equivalence of all marginalized groups. Anthropological institutions re-organized before the First World War sometimes showed decreasing confidence in racial theory but failed to abandon it completely. Staum's chilling epilogue discusses how the persistent legacy of such theories was used by extremist anthropologists outside the mainstream to deploy racial ideology as a basis of persecution in the Vichy era.
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences write by Roger E. Backhouse. This book was released on 2014-09-22. A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences exposes parallels and contrasts in the way the histories of the social sciences are written.
Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace
Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace write by Jean-François Drolet. This book was released on 2021-02-15. Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaphysics and his reflections on the politics and international relations of the late nineteenth century. Jean-François Drolet exposes and analyzes Nietzsche's account of the political processes, institutions, and dominant ideologies shaping public life in Germany and Europe during the 1870s and 1880s. Nietzsche anticipated a new kind of politics, borne out of such events as the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany under Bismarck, the advent of mass democracy, and the rise and transformation of European nationalism. Focusing on conflict and political violence, Drolet expertly reconstructs Nietzsche's fierce and continued critique of the nationalist, liberal, and socialist ideologies of his age, which the philosopher believed failed to grapple with the death of God and the crisis of European nihilism it engendered. As this reconstructive interpretation reveals, Nietzsche's philosophy offers a powerful and still greatly underappreciated reckoning with the changing political practices, norms, and agencies that led to the momentous collapse of the European society of states during the early twentieth century.
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France write by Snait B. Gissis. This book was released on 2024. Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zusammenfassung: 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 conjoining significant founding figures - Lamarck, Spencer, Hughlings Jackson, Ribot, Durkheim, Freud - who were not grouped nor analyzed in this manner before. Thus, the book offers a rather unique synthesis of the interactions of the social, the mental, and the evolutionary biological - Spencerian Lamarckism and/or Neo-Lamarckism - crystallizing into novel fields. It adds substantially to the understanding of the complexities of evolutionary debates during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It will attract the attention of a wide spectrum of specialists, academics, and postgraduates in European history of the nineteenth century, history and philosophy of science, and history of biology and of the social sciences, including psychology
In the Museum of Man
In the Museum of Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Museum of Man write by Alice L. Conklin. This book was released on 2013-10-15. In the Museum of Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath. Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity socioculturally rather than biologically, especially in the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism at the time of the Dreyfus Affair and in the 1930s and 1940s. Students of the progressive social scientist Marcel Mauss were exposed to the ravages of imperialism in the French colonies where they did fieldwork; as a result, they began to challenge both colonialism and the scientific racism that provided its intellectual justification. Indeed, a number of them were killed in the Resistance, fighting for the humanist values they had learned from their teachers and in the field. A riveting story of a close-knit community of scholars who came to see all societies as equally complex, In the Museum of Man serves as a reminder that if scientific expertise once authorized racism, anthropologists also learned to rethink their paradigms and mobilize against racial prejudice—a lesson well worth remembering today.
