La Science Des Moeurs Au Siecle Des Lumieres: Conception Et Experimentations - Paperback

by Laurie Breban (Editor), Severine Denieul (Editor), Elise Sultan-Villet (Editor)

The science of mores seeks to study man through observation and experimentation. In the eighteenth century, it attempted to apply a new methodology to an object that had previously been the exclusive preserve of metaphysicians and moralists. This would raise a number of problems.