Modernist impulses in the human sciences, 1870-1930 / edited by Dorothy Ross.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1994], ©1994.

xii, 379 pages ; 23 cm

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Modernism reconsidered / Dorothy Ross -- The knower and the artificer, with postscript 1993 / David A. Hollinger -- Dewey between Hegel and Darwin / Richard Rorty -- Democracy and disenchantment : from Weber and Dewey to Habermas and Rorty / James T. Kloppenberg -- Knowing ourselves : literary art versus social science / David Joravsky -- The death of the object : fin de siècle philosophy of physics / Theodore M. Porter -- On highest authority : the literary critic and other aviators in early twentieth-century Britain / Stefan Collini -- Modernist social science in the land of the new/old / Dorothy Ross -- The advent of psychological modernism in France : an alternate narrative / Jan Goldstein -- Mead's voices : imitation as foundation; or, the struggle against mimesis / Ruth Leys -- Darwinism and modernism : genetics, palaeontology, and the challenge to progressionism, 1880-1930 / Peter J. Bowler

Biology as social theory : the bifurcation of social biology and sociology in Germany, circa 1900 / Peter Weingart -- Modernist practice in American biology / Philip J. Pauly -- Producers, brokers, and users of knowledge : the institutional matrix / Olivier Zunz.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 309-369) and index