The Norton History of the Human Sciences

by Roger Smith and Roger Smith

Book Overview

This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393317331
• ISBN13: 9780393317336
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1064 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"