Product Description: dición a cargo de Dominique Séglard. La figura del intelectual europeo parece atrapada entre la melancolía y la utopía. Se refugia en la primera cuando, las más de las veces, el impulso que siente de mejorar el mundo colisiona con su escasa influencia sob

Product Description: Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world—including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science—present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships...read more

Product Description: Análisis de la relación llena de tensiones entre ciencias naturales, literatura y sociología en tres fuentes culturales: Francia (primitivo positivismo, literatura y sociología a fines de siglo XX); Inglaterra (John Stuart Mill, Beatris Webb, la novela utópica como sustituto de la sociología: H...read more

Product Description: Rare is the person who has never known the feelings of apathy, sorrow, and uselessness that characterize the affliction known as melancholy. In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class...read more

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 new 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 new 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.