Science and scientism in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard G. Olson.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008], ©2008.

349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Ideology -- Saint-Simon, Saint-Simonianism, and the birth of socialism -- Auguste Comte and positivisms -- Naturphilosophie, romanticism, and nationalism -- The rise of materialisms and the reshaping of religion and politics -- Early Victorian culture : public science and political science -- The rise of evolutionary perspectives, 1820-59 -- Darwinian evolution : natural selection, group selection, and sexual selection -- "Social Darwinisms" and other evolutionary social theories -- The problem of degeneration in the late nineteenth century.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-334) and index.