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Unemployment Insurance - The Second Half-century (Paperback, New)
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Unemployment Insurance - The Second Half-century (Paperback, New)
Series: La Follette Public Policy Series
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This remarkably ambitious work relates changes in scientific and
medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (circa 1500-1700)
to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting
language, texts, and nature. An invaluable history of ideas about
the nature of language during this period, The Word of God and the
Languages of Man also explores the wider cultural origins and
impact of these ideas. Its broad and deeply complex picture of a
profound sociocultural and intellectual transformation will alter
our definition of the scientific revolution. James J. Bono shows
how the new interpretive principles and scientific practices of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries evolved in response to new
views of the relationship between the "Word of God" and the
"Languages of Man" fostered by Renaissance Humanism, Neoplatonism,
magic, and both the reformed and radical branches of Protestantism.
He traces the cultural consequences of these ideas in the thought
and work of major and minor actors in the scientific
revolution--from Ficino and Paracelsus to Francis Bacon and
Descartes. By considering these natural philosophers in light of
their own intellectual, religious, philosophical, cultural,
linguistic, and especially narrative frameworks, Bono suggests a
new way of viewing the sociocultural dynamics of scientific change
in the pre-modern period--and ultimately, a new way of
understanding the nature and history of scientific thought. The
narrative configuration he proposes provides a powerful alternative
to the longstanding "revolutionary" metaphor of the history of the
scientific revolution.
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