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Antoine-Augustin Cournot as a Sociologist

Antoine-Augustin Cournot as a Sociologist

LeRoux, Robert

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030046869
ISBN13: 9783030046866
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 18 2019
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of yet, his sociological thought has not been explicitly discussed and contextualized within the discipline. From the 1850s to the end of the 1870s, Cournot contributed significantly to the history of French sociology, particularly in the development of one essential idea: that forms of knowledge are intimately linked to the progress of reason. Philosophy, therefore, becomes interested in the development of the sciences, evolving as they do from the process of rationalizing human societies. Cournot's comparative-historical sociology, rediscovered especially by Gabriel Tarde in the 20th century, seeks to understand how a macro-sociological trend can depend on the aggregation of a host individual decisions and actions, or to discern a certain order out of apparent chaos.

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