Between Literature and Science by Wolf Lepenies
The theme of this book is the conflict that arose in the early nineteenth century between the literary and scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the unique industrial society in which they lived. Sociology was conceived as the third major discipline, a hybrid of the scientific and literary traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the alternative discipline by discussing the lives and works of the most prominent thinkers of the time, in England, France, and Germany. The book presents a penetrating study of idealists grappling with reality when industrial society was in its infancy. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation.-
That Noble Dream
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The Taming of Chance
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Faces of Degeneration
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Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science
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Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
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Measurement in Psychology
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Toleration in Conflict
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The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
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Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy
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Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000
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Republic of Women
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
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Defining Science
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Otto Neurath
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Pluralism and the Personality of the State
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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
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Riches and Poverty
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Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom
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Philosophy in History
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
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Enlightenment and Religion
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The Idea of Luxury
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The Persistence of Party
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The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
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Irish Political Thought and the Union
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The State in Machiavelli
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The People's Two Powers
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Language and Civil Conflict in the Greco-Roman Tradition
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The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
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The History of the Arthasastra
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The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
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Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871–1885
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The History of Political Thought in National Context
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Recovering Liberties
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Liberty Abroad
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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
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The Crisis of German Historicism
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
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The Constitutionalist Revolution
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Parliamentarism
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Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
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Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851
"Lepenies offers us an historical recordHe does not evaluate the contributions of literature and sociology, or of literary sociology, to public exegesis. The book is a spectacular record of the internecine strife among exegetes. The author's international erudition is remarkable, control of materials masterly, his method careful and thorough, and his writing dramatic." Samuel Z. Klausner, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
"This is an immensely learned and fascinating essay in intellectual history. Originally published in German in 1985, it has now been made available in a remarkably fluent translation." Fritz Ringer, Journal of Modern History
"This is an immensely learned and fascinating essay in intellectual history. Originally published in German in 1985, it has now been made available in a remarkably fluent translation." Fritz Ringer, Journal of Modern History
Wolf Lepenies is one of Germany's foremost intellectuals. He served as Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg, the German Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1986-2001), where he is now a Permanent Fellow. Lepenies is also Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Berlin, and he spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of numerous books and writes regularly for the German national newspaper Die Welt.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521338103 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521338107 |
| Title | Between Literature and Science |
| Author | Wolf Lepenies |
| Series | Ideas In Context |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1988-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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