The Muse of History and the Science of Culture

• Main Author: Carneiro, Robert L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; History, general.

Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers a...

Table of Contents:

• The Philosophy of History
• The Changing Faces of History
• The Thorny Thickets of History
• What Drives the Engine of History?
• The Great Man and Ideas as Prime Movers
• How to Turn History into Science
• The Culture Process and Its Determinants
• Are There Laws of History?
• Proposed Laws of Culture.