Originally published in 1990, Nature and History examines how Darwin’s theory of evolution has been expanded by scholars and researchers to include virtually every scientific discipline. The book presents a morphological analysis of historical and social sciences – sciences which have traditionally have been viewed as too random in their progressions to conform to a model. Through the evaluation of empirical and factual evidence, the book builds a case for an evolutionary paradigm which encompasses both natural and social sciences, and presents the form’s adaptiveness in working historical models.
Acknowledgements Part I: The Paradigms of Form
1. Synthesis of
Biological and Psychological Processes
2. The Nature-Knowledge Nexus and the
Synthesis of Form
3. Nature and History: The Problem of a Unitary Conception
of Reality
4. Natural Sciences and Socio-Historical Sciences
5. Toward a
Unified Perspective: Form and Historical Knowledge Part II: Morphological
Analysis Applied to Historical Phenomena
6. The Dynamics of Change in
Historical Processes: Some Examples Bibliography to Part I Bibliography to
Part II
Ignazio Masulli
