Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century

by Dror Wahrman and Jonathan Sheehan

Book Overview

A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency.

Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems-natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others-whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226824047
• ISBN13: 9780226824048
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"