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.

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

Foreword
Introduction
The Rise of Social Theory:
Intellectuals Between Academy and Salon
Rivalry for Reason
French Moralists and the Social Order
The Construction of Social Theory
Theoretical Models Compared: France and Scotland
From Social Theory to Social Science:
Reform, Revolution and the Napoleonic Era
Intellectual Transformations Around 1800
Natural Science and Revolution
The Literary Opposition
Models for a Social Science
Foundations of Sociology:
The Interrupted Career of Auguste Comte
Politics, Science and Philosophy
The Turn to the Philosophy of Science
Response and Resistance
Summary
Notes
Index
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