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Natural and the Human Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

Gaukroger Stephen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198801603
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Gaukroger Stephen

Om bidragsyterne

Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685, was published in 2006, and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.

Natural and the Human Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

Gaukroger Stephen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Gaukroger Stephen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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In the first volume of his series to date (whose publication has spanned the decade 2006 to 2016), the author studied the period from 1210 to 1685, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. His second volume overlapped the first, covering 1680 to 1760, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility. Together, these three books represent one of the landmark achievements in the field of history of science, and represent essential reading for a wide range of disciplines. A tremendous intellectual achievement. We all eagerly await the fourth volume, dealing with science and civilisation from about 1840 to 1940.

Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami

The Natural and the Human...presents a fascinating, astonishingly broad-based...overview of the emergence of the human sciences, which contributes to large discussions about Western culture.

R.J.W. Mills, 1650-1850

The scope of Gaukroger's project is immense. His scholarship draws on primary sources in at least four languages, and extensive secondary commentary, much of it recent. Gaukroger typically proceeds by a focus on a few key individuals and their works as central nodes in developing this story--Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Diderot, Gibbon, Mandeville, Herder, Kant, Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach--around which he weaves a larger narrative The copious footnotes (yes, footnotes, not annoying endnotes), typically citing the most recent scholarship and the key primary sources relevant to the discussion, direct the reader to more detailed studies which he has synthesized in depth I find it deeply refreshing to read the effort of a single individual with wide and deep scholarly learning to deal with such a complex array of issues from a coherent organizing perspective.

Phillip R. Sloan, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was seen. At the core of the shift lies the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
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Introduction Part I 1: The Dichotomies of Understanding 2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter Part II 3: Anthropological Medicine 4: Philosophical Anthropology 5: The Natural History of Man 6: Social Arithmetic Part III 7: The Naturalization of Religion Conclusion Bibliography of Works Cited Index
Les mer
Original work by a leading expert in the field Presents a fascinating new perspective on intellectual history and accounts of human behaviour
Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685, was published in 2006, and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.
Les mer
Original work by a leading expert in the field Presents a fascinating new perspective on intellectual history and accounts of human behaviour

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In the first volume of his series to date (whose publication has spanned the decade 2006 to 2016), the author studied the period from 1210 to 1685, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. His second volume overlapped the first, covering 1680 to 1760, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility. Together, these three books represent one of the landmark achievements in the field of history of science, and represent essential reading for a wide range of disciplines. A tremendous intellectual achievement. We all eagerly await the fourth volume, dealing with science and civilisation from about 1840 to 1940.

Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami

The Natural and the Human...presents a fascinating, astonishingly broad-based...overview of the emergence of the human sciences, which contributes to large discussions about Western culture.

R.J.W. Mills, 1650-1850

The scope of Gaukroger's project is immense. His scholarship draws on primary sources in at least four languages, and extensive secondary commentary, much of it recent. Gaukroger typically proceeds by a focus on a few key individuals and their works as central nodes in developing this story--Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Diderot, Gibbon, Mandeville, Herder, Kant, Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach--around which he weaves a larger narrative The copious footnotes (yes, footnotes, not annoying endnotes), typically citing the most recent scholarship and the key primary sources relevant to the discussion, direct the reader to more detailed studies which he has synthesized in depth I find it deeply refreshing to read the effort of a single individual with wide and deep scholarly learning to deal with such a complex array of issues from a coherent organizing perspective.

Phillip R. Sloan, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful
Les mer
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was seen. At the core of the shift lies the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
Les mer
Introduction Part I 1: The Dichotomies of Understanding 2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter Part II 3: Anthropological Medicine 4: Philosophical Anthropology 5: The Natural History of Man 6: Social Arithmetic Part III 7: The Naturalization of Religion Conclusion Bibliography of Works Cited Index
Les mer
Original work by a leading expert in the field Presents a fascinating new perspective on intellectual history and accounts of human behaviour
Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685, was published in 2006, and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.
Les mer
Original work by a leading expert in the field Presents a fascinating new perspective on intellectual history and accounts of human behaviour

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198801603
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Gaukroger Stephen

Om bidragsyterne

Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685, was published in 2006, and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.

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