 | State of Nature, Stages of Society: Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse Subjects: History -- Philosophy; Enlightenment; Social history -- Philosophy; Progress -- Philosophy; Commerce -- Philosophy; Religion and sociology -- Philosophy; Prediction (Logic); Imaginary histories; Social sciences -- History; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Takes the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Frank Palmeri is a professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, Pynchon (1990) and Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815 (2003), and the editor of Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics (2006). |
