The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1

1. The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity; B. Wittrock, et al. 2. The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity; R. Wokler. 3. French Moralists and the Anthropology of the Modern Era: On the Genesis of the Notions of `Interest' and `Commercial Society' J. Heilbron. 4. The Construction of the Social Sciences in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Germany; P.H. Reill. 5. The Transformation of Philosophy; R. Collins. 6. The Language of Mercantilism: The English Economic Discussion during the Seventeenth Century; L. Magnusson. 7. Natural Law and the Origins of Nationalökonomie: L.H. von Jakob; K. Tribe. 8. Mathematics, Administrative Reform and Social Sciences in France at the End of the Eighteenth Century; E. Brian. 9. From Political Arithmetic to Social Statistics: How Some Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Social Sciences Were Implanted; M. Donnelly. 10. Certainty and Order, Liberty and Contingency: The Birth of Social Science as Empirical Political Philosophy; P. Wagner. About the Contributors. Index.