Comparison of Histories
The Contribution of Henry Maine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth E Bock (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 232-262 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500007477 |
| OpenAlex | W2166133202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
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
Evolution and society
Comparative Method in Anthropology
Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Ancient Law
The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology
Victorian Critics of Democracy
Evolution and Society
Maine's Ancient Law in the Light of Primitive Societies
The Doctrine of Survivals
Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society
The Ethnological Theories of Henry Sumner Maine1
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2013 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |