Hecht The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-50238-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hecht, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The End of the Soul
1. The Society of Mutual Autopsy and the Liturgy of Death
2. Evangelical Atheism and the Rise of French Anthropology
3. Scientific Materialism and the Public Response
4. Careers in Anthropology and the Bertillon Family
5. No Soul, No Morality: Vacher de Lapouge
6. Body and Soul: LÇonce Manouvrier and the Disappearing Numbers
7. The Leftist Critique of Determinist Science
8. Coda
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of Doubt: A History and two award-winning books of poetry, The Next Ancient World and Funny. She is a contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.