Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface and Acknowledgments IX
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Philosophical Foundations. Part I: Rationalism 13
6. 3. Philosophical Foundations. Part II: Skepticism 31
7. 4. Social Determinism to Sociology 60
8. 5. Beginnings of the Comparative Method 78
9. 6. The Comparative Method in Biology: The Evolutionary Paradigm 93
10. 7. The Beginnings of Anthropological Theory 106
11. 8. The Concept of the Tribe 140
12. 9. Modern Dualism: Organic Society 150
13. 10. Foundations of the Modern Monistic Tradition: The Organic Individual 180
14. 11. The Eclipse of Monism 208
15. 12. The Proliferation of Dualistic Traditions 229
16. 13. The Limits of Dualism 278
17. 14. The Re-Emergence of Monistic Alternatives 298
18. Bibliography 337
19. Index 361