Comparison of Histories

The Contribution of Henry Maine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107002
AutoresKenneth E Bock (University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año1974
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas232-262
Fecha de publicación1974-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500007477
OpenAlexW2166133202
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

The mid-nineteenth-century renaissance of interest in historical and comparative social and cultural studies issued in a rich variety of work ranging through religion, law, myth, language, kinship, art, politics-indeed, the whole sweep of human institutions. We see it as an intellectual movement given unity by a common resolve to bring time and space dimensions to humanistic inquiry, to replace analysis of abstract categories with explication of specified conditions of human affairs as outcomes of processes operating through time. Revolutionary zeal that encouraged an immediate reconstruction of society based on deduction from reasoned, timeless principle was countered with a view that the setting of human group life is always a going concern, shaped variously by temporal forces, and understandable only in its concrete forms. From this perspective the Austinian search for legal forms and the dry calculations of Benthamite utilitarianism had painted a false picture that did not get at the real stuff of social life

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Explication · Humanism · Kinship · Mythology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography