The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility: science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
Gaukroger, Stephen
How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive valuesare shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment. INDICE: Introduction; Part I; 1: The Construction of a New World Picture; 2: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; PART II; 3: The Metaphysical Unity of Natural Philosophy; 4: From Experimental Philosophy to Empiricism; 5: Explaining the Phenomena; PART III; 6: Natural Philosophy and the Republic of Letters; 7: The Realm of Reason; PART IV; 8: The Fortunes of a Unified Model of Natural Philosophy; 9: Material Activity; 10: Living and Dead Matter; PART V; 11: The Realm of Sensibility; 12: Historical Understanding and the Human Condition; Conclusion; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959493-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 520
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés