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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Hardcover)
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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Hardcover)
Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which
cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to,
scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and
philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The
significance of the emergence of such scientific values lies above
all in their ability to provide the criteria by which we come to
appraise cognitive enquiry, and which shape our understanding of
what it can achieve.
The period between the 1680s and the middle of the eighteenth
century is a very distinctive one in this development. It is then
that we witness the emergence of the idea that scientific values
form a model for all cognitive claims. It is also at this time that
science explicitly goes beyond technical expertise and begins to
articulate a world-view designed to displace others, whether
humanist or Christian. But what occurred took place in a peculiar
and overdetermined fashion, and the outcome in the mid-eighteenth
century was not the triumph of 'reason', as has commonly been
supposed, but rather a simultaneous elevation of the standing of
science and the beginnings of a serious questioning of whether
science offers a comprehensive form of understanding.
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility is the sequel
to Stephen Gaukroger's acclaimed 2006 book The Emergence of a
Scientific Culture. It offers a rich and fascinating picture of the
development of intellectual culture in a period where
understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.
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