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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,147
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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Hardcover): Stephen...

The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Hardcover)

Stephen Gaukroger

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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Release date: November 2010
First published: 2011
Authors: Stephen Gaukroger
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959493-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN: 0-19-959493-7
Barcode: 9780199594931

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