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Article: A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2006
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A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought. By Stephen Kern (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 437 pp. $29.95).
With A Cultural History of Causality, Stephen Kern sets out to undertake what "no one else has tackled" (p. 1) and provide a broad survey of changing ideas about the causes of human behavior from the Victorian era to modern times. Taking a three-pronged approach, he offers extensive descriptions of scientific developments in fields from evolutionary biology to quantum mechanics; detailed exegesis of the work of theorists from Nietzsche to Freud; and original readings of a wide selection of literary authors ...
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