{"product_id":"the-savant-and-the-state-9781421405223","title":"The Savant and the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn writing a history of science and cultural politics in nineteenth-century France, Fox has achieved a formidable and admirable synthesis. -- Mary Jo Nye Metascience Such a bold undertaking would flounder in the hands of anyone not possessed of superior scholarship and decades of experience. Savant and the State could have been written by no one other than Robert Fox. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Network A skilful balance between speculative and thought-provoking thematic work and accounts of the specific, the confined, and the material... Brilliant and well-researched. -- Sophie Waring British Journal for the History of Science This work should be of inestimable value to all historians of science, France, and European culture. -- Martin S. Staum American Historical Review A valuable synthesis of the variety of political and cultural roles played by the scientific enterprise in France from the end of the First Empire to the outbreak of World War I... A broad-ranging, balanced survey of the state of the field... In The Savant and the State, Fox has written what is likely to remain the definitive survey of public science in nineteenth-century France for some time to come. -- Alex Csiszar Journal of Modern History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Science and the New Order\u003cbr\u003eThe Return of the Bourbons\u003cbr\u003ePatronage, Authority, and the Profession of Science\u003cbr\u003eScience and the Industrial Age\u003cbr\u003eA Philosophy for the Times: The Roots of Positivism\u003cbr\u003e2. Voices on the Periphery\u003cbr\u003eAcademies and Societies\u003cbr\u003eThe Devotee: Nature, Learning, and Locality\u003cbr\u003eScience and Decentralization\u003cbr\u003eThe Triumph of the Center\u003cbr\u003e3. Science, Bureaucracy, and the Empire\u003cbr\u003eThe Trials of Academic Science\u003cbr\u003eEducation, Industry, and the Imperial State\u003cbr\u003eThe Bureaucracy of Learning\u003cbr\u003eThe Roots of Academic Reform\u003cbr\u003e4. Science, Philosophy, and the Culture of Secularism\u003cbr\u003eThe Midcentury: Conformity and Dissent in French Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature of Life: Pasteur–Pouchet Revisited\u003cbr\u003eThe Radical Synthesis and Its Enemies\u003cbr\u003eA Faith for the Age: The Religion of Humanity\u003cbr\u003e5. Science for All\u003cbr\u003eFashioning the Audience\u003cbr\u003eMasters of the Mass Market: Flammarion and Figuier\u003cbr\u003eThe Spoken Word\u003cbr\u003eBroader Audiences, Bigger Stakes\u003cbr\u003e6. The Public Face of Republican Science\u003cbr\u003eThe Savant at War and Peace\u003cbr\u003eCountercurrents: Science in the Catholic Tradition\u003cbr\u003eThe Republic of the Savants\u003cbr\u003eFin de Siècle: From Inspiration to Anxiety\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: The French System of Education and Research\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Exchange Rates and Incomes in Nineteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Note\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529524519255,"sku":"9781421405223","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421405223.jpg?v=1731875951","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-savant-and-the-state-9781421405223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}