Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
5 - The Origins of the Social Sciences
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
Many of those who lived through the turbulent period sparked off by the revolution in Paris in 1789 such as Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) in England, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) in Germany and Madame de Staël (1766–1817) in France, concurred in their different ways that what was at work was the action of human reason, in a progressive direction – that had been subverted by reaction – and that the new century would renew the progress promised by the initial event.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought , pp. 72 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019