Review of Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes
The social science revolution in philosophical and historical context
This book is about a moment of transition in the 1890s, when philosophy and the social sciences decisively diverged. It is intellectual history at its best, combining biography, political issues, and how they impacted the theories that were struggling to emerge. A generation steeped in Enlightenment optimism and the peace of the Belle Époque, they beli…
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