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Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information from many sources, it examines the learned disciplines of the time.

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: A Theoretical Framework 1: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Background: Classification 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815: Assimilation 3: The Sciences of State at Their Height, 1815-1840: Deliberation 4: A Period of Transition, 1840-1866: Variation 5: A Truncated Revival, 1866-1890: Organized Research and Charisma 6: The Wilhelminian Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and Clarification Epilogue Appendix: The Data from University Catalogues Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 6/23/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226482415, 978-0226482415
      ISBN10: 0226482413
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      Political structure and processes Sociology and anthropology History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information from many sources, it examines the learned disciplines of the time.

      Table of Contents
      List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: A Theoretical Framework 1: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Background: Classification 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815: Assimilation 3: The Sciences of State at Their Height, 1815-1840: Deliberation 4: A Period of Transition, 1840-1866: Variation 5: A Truncated Revival, 1866-1890: Organized Research and Charisma 6: The Wilhelminian Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and Clarification Epilogue Appendix: The Data from University Catalogues Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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