{"product_id":"history-man-and-reason-9781421431789","title":"History Man and Reason","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1971. The purpose of this book is to draw attention to important aspects of thought in the nineteenth century. While its central concerns lie within the philosophic tradition, materials drawn from the social sciences and elsewhere provide important illustrations of the intellectual movements that the author attempts to trace. This book aims at examining philosophic modes of thought as well as sifting presuppositions held in common by a diverse group of thinkers whose antecedents and whose intentions often had little in common. After a preliminary tracing of the main strands of continuity within philosophy itself, the author concentrates on how, out of diverse and disparate sources, certain common beliefs and attitudes regarding history, man, and reason came to pervade a great deal of nineteenth-century thought. Geographically, this book focuses on English, French, and German thought. Mandelbaum believes that views regarding history and man and reason pose proble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Philosophic Background\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Philosophic Movements in the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Historicism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Nature and Scope of Historicism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The First Phase of Historicism: From the Enlightenment Through Hegel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Search for a Science of Socity: From Saint-Simon to Marx and Engels\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Evolution and Progress\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Social Evolution\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Historicism: A Critical Appraisal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Malleability of Man \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Challenges to Constancy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Geneticim: The Associationist Tradition\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Organicism: Culture and Human Nature\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Man as a Progressive Being\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Constancy and Changer in Human Nature: A Critical Account\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. The Limits of Reason\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Critiques of the Intellectual Powers of Man: The Idealist Strand\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Ignoramus, Ignorabimus: The Positivist Strand\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. The Rebellion Against Reason\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Limits Reappraised\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408131400023,"sku":"9781421431789","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431789.jpg?v=1730501699","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-man-and-reason-9781421431789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}