The amazing success achieved by physics at the hands of Newton made many thinkers strive for the human sciences to reach the same degree of certainty, accuracy, and objectivity.

We have a feeling that we have read this phrase before, or heard this story, but who are these thinkers? What attempts did they make? Has this ambition been abandoned? All these details are provided to us by this book, which reviews an important period in the history of thought, aiming to determine the scientific extent of the human sciences

جوليان فروند هو عضو في المقاومة الفرنسية ‏ وفيلسوف فرنسي، ولد في 9 يناير 1921 في Henridorff ‏ في فرنسا، وتوفي في 10 سبتمبر 1993 في كولمار في فرنسا.