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008			150608t20152015ilua ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780226233741 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aB802 _b.I585 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSheehan, Jonathan, _d1969- _e1
245	1	0	_aInvisible hands : _bself-organization and the eighteenth century / _cJonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (375 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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520	0		_a"Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems--natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others--whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders, rooted in either divine providence or the mechanical operations of nature, began to fall away. In their place arose a new appreciation for the complexity of things, a new recognition of the world's disorder and randomness, new doubts about simple relations of cause and effect--but with them also a new ability to imagine the world's orders, whether natural or manmade, as self-organizing. If large systems are left to their own devices, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly came to believe, order will emerge on its own without any need for external design or direction. In Invisible Hands, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman trace the many appearances of the language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West. Across an array of domains, including religion, society, philosophy, science, politics, economy, and law, they show how and why this way of thinking came into the public view, then grew in prominence and arrived at the threshold of the nineteenth century in versatile, multifarious, and often surprising forms. Offering a new synthesis of intellectual and cultural developments, Invisible Hands is a landmark contribution to the history of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century culture"--Provided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aPart I -- _tPrologue: Europeans at the threshold -- _tProvidence and the orders of the world -- _tLiving in complexity circa 1700 -- _tMan-made apocalypse: The public emergence of self-organization -- _tPart 2 -- _tPrologue: An island of dreams -- _tThe order and organization of life -- _tThe emergence of mind -- _tPart 3 -- _tPrologue: An island of goats -- _tThe secret concatenation of society -- _tThe politics of self-organization.
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650		0	_aPhilosophy, Modern _y18th century.
650		0	_aOrder _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aEnlightenment.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aWahrman, Dror, _e1
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=964526&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell