The Emergence Of The Social Sciences 1642-1792 (twayne's Studies In Intellectual And Cultural History) (no 5)

1. Introduction -- 2. Contents For The Emergence Of The Social Sciences: Traditions Of Social Discourse And The New Philosophies Of The Scientific Revolution -- 3. Renaissance Naturalism And Political Economy In The German Cameralist Tradition -- 4. Rationalist Mechanical Philosophy And The Psychological Tradition Of Social Science -- 5. Experimental Mechanical Philosophy, Political Arithmetic, And Political Economy In Seventeenth-century Britain -- 6. Natural History, Historical Jurisprudence, And The Emergence Of Traditions Of Philosophical History To The Time Of Montesquieu -- 7. Newton, Locke, And Changing Ideas About The Character Of Science -- 8. Associationist And Sensationalist Psychologies, Political Radicalism, And Utilitarianism, 1700-1790 -- 9. Political Economy And The Consolidation Of Economic Liberalism, 1695-1775 -- 10. Philosophical History (sociology) And The Emergence Of Conservative Ideology, 1725-67. Richard Olson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 213-218) And Index. Examine how Olson identify and analyze competing and parallel developments in social-scientific thought, in particular the political economy of Central Europe whose formative ideas drew upon alchemy and the works of Paracelsus.