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The Natural and the Human - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,004
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The Natural and the Human - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Paperback): Stephen Gaukroger

The Natural and the Human - Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Paperback)

Stephen Gaukroger

Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Release date: March 2018
Authors: Stephen Gaukroger
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-880160-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
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
LSN: 0-19-880160-2
Barcode: 9780198801603

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