Antoine-Augustin Cournot As a Sociologist
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Context and General Ideas of the Book -- Background -- A Convoluted Intellectual Legacy -- The Crisis of French Philosophy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- The Social Question and the Critique of Socialism -- Chapter 2 The Necessity of History -- Chance, Causality, and the Reason of Things -- From the Philosophy of History to Historical Etiology -- Statistics: Method or Symptom of a Final State? -- The Status of Historical Knowledge -- Chapter 3 Epistemological Issues -- Science and Philosophy -- Probability as the Means of Comprehending Reality -- A Classification of the Sciences -- Philosophy and Sociology of Knowledge -- Chapter 4 Action, Rationalism and Social Change -- A Sociology of Action -- The Triumph of Reason -- The Future of Politics -- The French Revolution and Social Change -- A Sociology of Religion -- Chapter 5 The Study of the Social Milieu -- The Role of Biology -- The Critique of Psychology -- Two Worlds: The Vital and the Rational -- Morality, Language, and the Law -- The Sociological Foundations of Education -- Chapter 6 Cournot and the French Sociological Tradition -- Comte and Cournot -- Gabriel Tarde, Student of Cournot -- Durkheimian Sociology and Cournot -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.