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.
About the Author
Johan Heilbron is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.
Features
* An important account of the origins of social theory and sociology. * A vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the enlightenment and the age of romanticism. * Methodologically innovative: it uses Bourdieu's approach to analyze the rise of social theory.
