This book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant account of the "pre-history" of sociology and a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of Romanticism.
Martin Dore, Ioana Popa, Elzbieta Skibinska, Marta Pragana Dantas, Jean-Marc Gouanvic, Johan Heilbron, Herve Serry, Fanny Mazzone, Camille Joseph, Sophie Noel, Luc Pinhas, Gustavo Sora, Andre Schiffrin, Helene Buzelin, Jean Yves Mollier, Gisele Sapiro