State of Nature, Stages of Society: Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse (Hardcover)

Foreword, by Dick Howard
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conjectural History, the Form, and Its Afterlife
1. Conjectural History: The Enlightenment Form
2. Political Economy and the Question of Progress
3. Comte, Spencer, and the Science of Society
4. The Origins of Culture and of Anthropology
5. Darwin, Nietzsche, and the Prehistory of the Human
6. The Social Psychology of Religion
7. Novels as Conjectural Histories
Conclusion: Conjecturalism Now
Appendix 1. Enlightenment Conjectural Histories
Appendix 2. Hegel, History, and Conjecture
Appendix 3. Were Conjectural Histories Racist?
Notes
Index