A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern

A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought

Stephen Kern

437 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by mo...

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