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Autoren und Wissenschaftler im 18. Jahrhundert. Linne, Buffon, Winckelmann, Georg Forster, Erasmus Darwin.
Wolf Lepenies

Carl Hanser, 1988
  
  











  



  
Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals: Centers and Peripheries in a Changing World

Campus Verlag, 2003

Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world?including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science?present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, ...
  
  











  



  
Qu'est-ce qu'un intellectuel européen ? : Les intellectuels et la politique de l'esprit dans l'histoire ...
Wolf Lepenies

Seuil, 2007
  
  











  



  
Die drei Kulturen. Soziologie zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft.
Wolf Lepenies

Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 2002
  
  











  



  
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology (Ideas in Context)
Wolf Lepenies

Cambridge University Press, 1988

The theme of this book is the conflict that arose in the early nineteenth century between the literary and scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the new industrial society in which they lived. Sociology was conceived as the third major discipline, a hybrid of the scientific and literary traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the new discipline by discussing the lives and works of the ...
  
  











  



  
Benimm und Erkenntnis.
Wolf Lepenies

Suhrkamp, 1997
  
  











  



  
The Seduction of Culture in German History2 reviews
Wolf Lepenies

Princeton University Press, 2006

An Interesting View of German Intellectual History
I found this to be quite an interesting book maintaining a thesis with which I had not been familiar: namely, that throughout German history there had been an "overrrating of culture at the expense of politics, especially in the sense of of parliamentary politics." The author first traces this theme in German history down until the end of the Great War. He then focuses, as he does quite ...
  
  











  



  
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)

Springer, 1983
  
  











  



  
Kultur und Politik
Wolf Lepenies

Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co., 2006
  
  











  



  
Sainte-Beuve: Auf der Schwelle zur Moderne
Wolf Lepenies

C. Hanser, 1997
  
  











  



  
Melancholie und Gesellschaft.
Wolf Lepenies

Suhrkamp, 1998
  
  











  



  
Melancholy and Society
Wolf Lepenies, Judith N. Shklar

Harvard University Press, 1992

Rare is the person who has never known the feelings of apathy, sorrow, and uselessness that characterize the affliction known as melancholy. In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general. ...
  
  











  



  
Sainte-Beuve
Wolf Lepenies

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2006
  
  











  



  
The Seduction of Culture in German History
Wolf Lepenies

Princeton Univ Pr, 2006
  
  











  



  
Sainte-Beuve : Au seuil de la modernité
Wolf Lepenies, Jeanne Etoré, ...

Gallimard, 2002
  
  











  








   



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